Treatise On Laughter
Author： Laurent Joubert
Publisher： University of Alabama Press
Publication year： 2016
E-ISBN: 9780817390556
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780817300265
Subject： K History and Geography
Keyword： Laughter., Psychology -- Early works to 1850., Psychophysiology -- Early works to 1800.
Language： FRO
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Description
Laurent Joubert (b. 1529) was an important figure in the medical world of the French Renaissance. His monumental Treatise on Laughter provides categories and examples of the laughable. The work describes laughter, its causes and effects, its types and differences. His subdivisions and categories, along with their examples, furnish todays critic and reader with a Renaissance vision of comic commonplaces. It is this vision that may prove to be of great value in analyzing comic literature of the Renaissance.
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