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Humor Theory Books
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The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.44 — 1,012 ratings — published 2014
Comedy, Tragedy, and Religion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.32 — 22 ratings — published 1999
Comedy: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.41 — 79 ratings — published 2012
On Humor: Its Nature and Its Place in Modern Society (Hardcover)
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avg rating 2.67 — 3 ratings — published
Humour: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.22 — 162 ratings — published 2014
On Humour (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 260 ratings — published 2002
The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 1,676 ratings — published 1905
Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,423 ratings — published 1994
Comedy: The Mastery of Discourse (Hardcover)
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avg rating 2.60 — 5 ratings — published
The Rhetoric of Racist Humour: US, UK and Global Race Joking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 7 ratings — published 2006
Stereotyping: The Politics of Representation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published 2001
Jokes and Targets (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 2011
Ethnic Humor Around the World: A Comparative Analysis (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.90 — 10 ratings — published 1997
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Jokes and their Relations to Society (Humor Research [HR], 4)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 1998
The Mirth of Nations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2002
Comic Relief: A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor (New Directions in Aesthetics, No. 9)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.41 — 87 ratings — published 2009
Humor Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.17 — 6 ratings — published 1997
Leviathan (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.70 — 51,927 ratings — published 1651
Laughter and Ridicule: Towards a Social Critique of Humour (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
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avg rating 4.16 — 25 ratings — published 2005
Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.47 — 158 ratings — published 1999
A Cultural History of Humour: From Antiquity to the Present Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 12 ratings — published 1997
Rabelais and His World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,526 ratings — published 1965
The Language of Humour (English Language Series)
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avg rating 3.40 — 10 ratings — published 1985
An Anatomy of Humor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 9 ratings — published 1999
Handbook of Humor Research: Volume 1: Basic Issues (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1983
Handbook of Humor Research: Volume II: Applied Studies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1983
Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.61 — 46 ratings — published 1997
The Social Faces of Humour: Practices and Issues (Popular Culture)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 1996
گروتسک (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.57 — 68 ratings — published 2011
Taking Laughter Seriously (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 35 ratings — published 1982
The Philosophy of Laughter and Humor (SUNY Series in Philosophy)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 91 ratings — published 1986
A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.85 — 120 ratings — published 1985
End of Comedy: The Sit-Com and the Comedic Tradition (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Humour in Society: Resistance and Control (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1988
New Perspectives Women Comedy (STUDIES IN GENDER AND CULTURE)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1992
Circus of the Mind in Motion: Postmodernism and the Comic Vision (Humor in Life and Letters)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 1990
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 2,259 ratings — published 1900
Sincerity: How a Moral Ideal Born Five Hundred Years Ago Inspired Religious Wars, Modern Art, Hipster Chic, and the Curious Notion That We All Have Something to Say (No Matter How Dull)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.66 — 145 ratings — published 2012
The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.67 — 9 ratings — published 1987
The Jokes of Sigmund Freud: A Study in Humor and Jewish Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 1984
Irony (New Critical Idiom)
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avg rating 3.77 — 48 ratings — published 2003
Semantic Mechanisms of Humor (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 24)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 14 ratings — published 1984
Linguistic Theories of Humor (Humor Research, No. 1)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 21 ratings — published 1994
A Rhetoric of Irony (Phoenix Books)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 87 ratings — published 1974
For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 318 ratings — published 1999
Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,237 ratings — published 2009
The Logic of the Absurd: On Film and Television Comedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 1987
Taking Humour Seriously (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.56 — 9 ratings — published 1993
Chic Ironic Bitterness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as humor-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 18 ratings — published 2007
