Of corpse: death and humor in folklore and popular culture

• Other Authors: Narváez, Peter
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Colorado State University. Libraries 2007
• Subjects: Death > Folklore; Death > Humor; Cosentino; Greenwich; Koven; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/87761

Includes bibliographical references and index. Laughter, contemporary theory suggests, is often aggressive in some manner and may be prompted by a sudden perception of incongruity combined with memories of past emotional experience. Given this importance of the past to our recognition of the comic,...