Of Corpse : Death and Humor in Folkore and Popular Culture / / edited by Peter Narváez.

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, it follows that some ""traditions&quo...

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Place / Publishing House:Logan, Utah : : Utah State University Press,, 2003.
©2003.
Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (368 pages) :; illustrations
Notes:"An earlier version of Ellis's essay 'Making a Big Apple crumble' was published in the online Journal new directions in folklore, 6 June 2002."
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505 0 |a The Death-Humor Paradox --PART ONE Disaster Jokes --PART TWO Rites of Passage --PART THREE Festivals --PART FOUR Popular Culture --NOTES --REFERENCES --CONTRIBUTORS --INDEX. 
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