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Studies In Comparative Literature 8

Legenda: Oxford, 2005
£42.50 ($69.00 US)  Hardback  192pp
With 10 illustrations
ISBN: 1-900755-72-6

The nature of laughter has recently attracted the attention of a number of different disciplines. In two recent colloquia, TRIO (Translation Research in Oxford) brought together international authorities from fields as diverse as physiology, psychology, linguistics, translation and literary studies, and sociology, with scant regard for political correctness. This fascinating and often hilarious collection of essays is the result.

The editors are Toby Garfitt (Fellow and Tutor in French, Magdalen College, University of Oxford), Edith McMorran (St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford) and Jane Taylor (Principal, Collingwood College, University of Durham).

With the contributions:

Jane Taylor — Introduction
Dominique Bertrand — Anatomie et étymologie: ordre et désordre du rire selon Laurent Joubert
Silke Kipper, Dietmar Todt — The Sound of Laughter: Recent Concepts and Findings in Research into Laughter Vocalizations
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore — Why Can’t You Tickle Yourself?
Michael Holland — Belly Laughs
Walter Redfern — Upping the Ante/i: Exaggeration in Céline and Vallès
Giselinde Kuipers — Humour Styles and Class Cultures: Highbrow Humour and Lowbrow Humour in the Netherlands
Christie Davies — Searching for Jokes: Language, Translation, and the Cross-Cultural Comparison of Humour
Ted Cohen — And What If They Don’t Laugh?
Iain Galbraith — Without the Rape the Talk-Show Would Not Be Laughable
Jean-Michel Déprats — Translating a Great Feast of Languages
Paul J. Memmi — Traduire le rire
Natacha Thiéry — Rire et désir dans les comédies américaines de Lubitsch: l’exemple de Ninotchka (1939)
Adam Phillips — What’s So Funny? On Being Laughed at ...
Sukanta Chaudhuri — Laughing and Talking
Georges Roque — Le Rire comme accident en peinture
Laurent Bazin — La Couleur du rire: peinture et traduction
Gérard Toulouse — Views on the Physics and Metaphysics of Laughter