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Page 120
... sympathies are divided . On this basis , personal violence is effective for laughter because it provokes ambivalent love - hate behaviour . Approaching the problem from another angle we come unexpectedly to the same conclusion ...
... sympathies are divided . On this basis , personal violence is effective for laughter because it provokes ambivalent love - hate behaviour . Approaching the problem from another angle we come unexpectedly to the same conclusion ...
Page 148
... sympathies of the audience . But this appeal will be overwhelmed by opposition , nature will be successfully repressed by nurture , unless the comic poet neutralizes the opposition by various technical devices . Some of these must be ...
... sympathies of the audience . But this appeal will be overwhelmed by opposition , nature will be successfully repressed by nurture , unless the comic poet neutralizes the opposition by various technical devices . Some of these must be ...
Page 149
... sympathies with Falstaff in his wickedness , and then on our sym- pathies with those who stand for law and order and fair dealing among men , all the while keeping Falstaff in the ascendant , is a perpetual wonder and delight to those ...
... sympathies with Falstaff in his wickedness , and then on our sym- pathies with those who stand for law and order and fair dealing among men , all the while keeping Falstaff in the ascendant , is a perpetual wonder and delight to those ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
THE LAUGHTER OF INFANTS | 23 |
LOVE AND LAUGHTER | 44 |
Copyright | |
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adult Allin ambivalent amusing animal Aristophanes Aristotle aroused associations attention audience Bergson called cause character child comedy comic poet comic writer Critical Darwin devil Dionysus disguise displeasure edition effect emotion energy English translation Essay on Laughter excite expression fabliaux Falstaff feeling Freud harmless wit hate Havelock Ellis hostility Hudibras human humour Ibid idea impulse incongruity indecent instinct of love interruption jack-in-the-box effect James Sully joke Journal of Psychology L'île des pingouins laugh laughable Le rire less London love behaviour ludicrous meaning mind mnemic modesty Molière mood moral object obscene obstruction occasion pain Paris parody person phallus play pleasure Preyer provoke Punch QUINTILIAN quoted relation ridiculous rire satire says sexual behaviour Shakespeare situation smile spectators stimulus story suggested Sully supposed surprise Tartufe theory of laughter thing tickling ticklishness tion touch turn unconscious unconscious mind VICTOR DE LAPRADE whole witticism women words