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Redeeming Laughter, 2nd Edition
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Redeeming Laughter, 2nd Edition

by Peter L. Berger
October 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
222 pages
7h 37m
English
De Gruyter
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Prologue

Amid the variety of human experiences of reality, or of what appears to be reality, the experience of the comic occupies a very distinctive place. On the one hand, it is ubiquitous. Everyday life is full of comic interludes, of occasions for humor, of little jokes as well as more elaborate ones. What is more, the experience of the comic is universal. While its expression differs greatly from one culture to another, there is no human culture without it. On the other hand, the experience of the comic is highly fragile, fugitive, sometimes hard to remember. What seems funny in one moment may suddenly take on a tragic quality in the next moment, a joke may be so subtle that it barely reaches the level of full attention, and this is why ...

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ISBN: 9783110353938