Barry Sanders' book Sudden Glory: Laughter as subversive History is a prime example. Its title promises something subversive, more specifically, the treatment of laughter as something subversive

Barry Sanders' book Sudden Glory: Laughter as subversive History is a prime example. Its title promises something subversive, more specifically, the treatment of laughter as something subversive. And in the preface, there are moments when that promise almost peeps out with its clownish face spewing bits of delightful poetic nonsense. In fact, he implies that laughter has its origins in religion (though, happily, being an academic of our times at one of the hipper private colleges, he is too immersed in the muddle of post-modern thought not to contradict himself repeatedly).

Barry Sanders, Sudden Glory: Laughter as Subversive History (Beacon Press, 25 Beacon S. This leads Sanders to one of the book's important conclusions: throughout history, laughter has tended to rise from the lower classes, much to the embarrassment. of the upper classes.

Barry Sanders, Sudden Glory: Laughter as Subversive History (Beacon Press, 25 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02108), 328 p. Paper, 1996. Laughter acted as check against the worst excesses of the ruling class; if a. priest or nobleman wasn't careful in his dealings with the local peasantry, the resulting mockery. could render him impotent.

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Sudden Glory: Laughter as Subversive History (1996) - Explores the history of laughter, emphasizing the ways in which it has been used as a means of political subversion. The Private Death of Public Discourse (1998) - thesis is that civil public discourse is possible only if there is the necessary corollary of truly introspective quest for meaning. Unsuspecting Souls: The Disappearance of The Human Being (2010) - the collusion of drugs and aesthetics in the late nineteenth century Victorian era. (finalist in the 2011 Oregon Book Award general nonfiction category.

Sudden Glory presents the history of one of the most evanescent but powerful forms of human expression - laughter

Sudden Glory presents the history of one of the most evanescent but powerful forms of human expression - laughter. Here is the first book to look not at humor or comedy, but it laughter itself - and specifically at the way laughter evolved into an effective weapon for political subversion. Sudden Glory presents the history of one of the most evanescent but powerful forms of human expression - laughter.

Sudden Glory presents the history of one of the most evanescent but powerful forms of human expression - laughter.

Laughter as Subversive History. Category: Nonfiction. In this wonderful exploration of the meaning of laughter, Barry Sanders queries its uses from the ancient Hebrews to Lenny Bruce, turning up evidence of its age-old power to subvert authority and give voice to the voiceless. Inspired by Your Browsing History. Teresita Fernández.

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Informationen zum Titel Sudden Glory von Barry Sanders In this wonderful exploration of the meaning of laughter, Barry Sanders queries its uses from the ancient Hebrews to Lenny Bruce, turning up evidence of its age-old.

Informationen zum Titel Sudden Glory von Barry Sanders In this wonderful exploration of the meaning of laughter, Barry Sanders queries its uses from the ancient Hebrews to Lenny Bruce, turning up evidence of its age-old power to subvert authority and give voice to the voiceless. Cultural studies, History, History & criticism, Humor, Laughter, Literature – Classics, Criticism, Physiological & neuro-psychology