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Sweet Madness: A Study of Humor



This book is about the mechanics of humor and how it works. It discusses the roles of paradox, metaphor, and fantasy in humor, and how these play a role in the development of a sense of humor. It also discusses the background for this study, which comes from fields such as psychiatry, psychology, anthropology, and sociology. more details
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  • The mechanics of humor and how it works
  • The role of paradox, metaphor, and fantasy in humor
  • The background for this study comes from fields such as psychiatry, psychology, anthropology, and sociology


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Author William Fry
ISBN 9781412811682
Publisher Transaction Publishers
Manufacturer Transaction Publishers
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This book is about the mechanics of humor and how it works. It discusses the roles of paradox, metaphor, and fantasy in humor, and how these play a role in the development of a sense of humor. It also discusses the background for this study, which comes from fields such as psychiatry, psychology, anthropology, and sociology.

Written for all who are interested in the mechanics of humor, Sweet Madness presents a general discussion and introduction to the roles of paradox, metaphor, and fantasy in humor. The operation of the implicit and the unconscious in humor; the importance of humor to human life; and the development, from childhood on, of the sense of humor are discussed. The background for this serious study is drawn from such fields as psychiatry, psychology, anthropology, and sociology. William F. Fry, in this work, presents a new theory of the structure of humor based on the sometimes little understood psychological processes experienced by those who use humor or are exposed to humor. It is these relationships with other fields of study that allows for this investigation into the anatomy of humor. Fry, in this outstanding and erudite volume, takes a giant step in furthering our thinking about humor in transactional terms. Humor and a sense of humor are a vital part of human interactions, and as such, this book has much to contribute to the study of psychology, cultural, communications, and of coursehumor itself.
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