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).
Reviews:
‘An accessible and educative collection... provides much more than a visitation of standard methodologies, and it does much more than merely celebrate laughter as cognitive, linguistic, or aesthetic function. An indispensable collection for the serious humour scholar.’ — Tarez Samra Graban, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature December 2010, 428-31
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Garfitt, Toby, Edith McMorran, and Jane Taylor (eds), The Anatomy of Laughter, Studies In Comparative Literature, 8 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2005)
First footnote reference:35The Anatomy of Laughter, ed. by Toby Garfitt, Edith McMorran and Jane Taylor, Studies In Comparative Literature, 8 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2005), p. 21.
Subsequent footnote reference:37 Garfitt, McMorran, and Taylor, p. 47.
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