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- catalog abstract ""Why are jokes funny? For Mikita Brottman, there is nothing funny about laughter, which is less connected to mirth and feelings of good will than to a nexus of darker emotions: fear, aggression, shame, anxiety. To this end, she provides an account of the life and work of Gershon Legman, exiled author, publisher, and sexologist, Alfred Kinsey's first bibliographer, and legendary compiler of the dirty joke. Using Legman's writings as a framework for understanding the ambivalent and often hostile impulses that underlie the comic impulse, she explores dirty jokes, the figure of the "evil clown" in popular culture, the current popularity of "humor therapy," changing fashions in stand-up comedy, and the connection between humor and horror. Brottman's prose, laced with wit, does not obscure the seriousness of Funny Peculiar. It is a thoughtful and wide-ranging elaboration of the Freudian claim that joking, in point of fact, is no laughing matter."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13245063.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""Why are jokes funny? For Mikita Brottman, there is nothing funny about laughter, which is less connected to mirth and feelings of good will than to a nexus of darker emotions: fear, aggression, shame, anxiety. To this end, she provides an account of the life and work of Gershon Legman, exiled author, publisher, and sexologist, Alfred Kinsey's first bibliographer, and legendary compiler of the dirty joke. Using Legman's writings as a framework for understanding the ambivalent and often hostile impulses that underlie the comic impulse, she explores dirty jokes, the figure of the "evil clown" in popular culture, the current popularity of "humor therapy," changing fashions in stand-up comedy, and the connection between humor and horror. Brottman's prose, laced with wit, does not obscure the seriousness of Funny Peculiar. It is a thoughtful and wide-ranging elaboration of the Freudian claim that joking, in point of fact, is no laughing matter."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-172) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 174 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0881634042".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Hillsdale, NJ : Analytic Press,".
- catalog subject "809.7/93538 22".
- catalog subject "Legman, G. (Gershon), 1917- Rationale of the dirty joke.".
- catalog subject "PN6149.S37 L434 2004".
- catalog subject "Sex Humor History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Wit and humor History and criticism.".
- catalog title "Funny peculiar : Gershon Legman and the psychopathology of humor / Mikita Brottman.".
- catalog type "text".