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Laughing Matters: Comic Tradition in India by Lee Siegel: Used
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- Publication Date
- 1987-12-09
- Pages
- 516
- ISBN
- 9780226756912
- Book Title
- Laughing Matters : Comic Tradition in India
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication Year
- 1987
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.8in
- Genre
- Humor
- Topic
- Topic / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, General
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 30.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 516 Pages
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How can anyone laugh who knows of old age, disease, and death?--Buddhacarita This question, so solemnly posed by the young Buddha, first led Lee Siegel to examine the hitherto unexplored realm of Indian comedy. Laughing Matters is Siegel's account of two intersecting journeys: a search for comic traditions created and preserved in Sanskrit literature and a journey through modern India in quest of a laughter that persists across time and culture. Hearing a boisterous and bawdy voice from India's past, Siegel has provided original and highly entertaining translations of Sanskrit literature that reveal a sparkling sensibility embedded in the texts. These translations are integrated with a detailed analysis of the types and structures of India's mirth. Siegel develops an original theory of comedy and laughter, applying it to reveal the humor in the ancient works. Defining sacred and profane comedy and the taste and erotics of laughter, he delineates two main Indian categories of comedy--laughter at others and laughter at oneself--which are roughly parallel to the Western traditions of satire and humor. He examines these categories in all of their forms and functions: satires of manners, social satire, and religious satire; and human and divine comedy. Siegel concludes by presenting his perceptions of humor in modern India as seen through cartoons, movies, books, and social gatherings. Laughing Matters is both a serious and a hilarious study of the Indian comic sense of life--a vision formed in the convergence of the bitter insight of satire and the sweet outlook of humor. Past and present, the contextual and the universal, scholarship and the picaresque, are all interwoven in this original treatise on the aesthetics of comedy and the psychology of laughter.
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226756912
ISBN-13
9780226756912
eBay Product ID (ePID)
93691
Product Key Features
Book Title
Laughing Matters : Comic Tradition in India
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Topic / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, General
Publication Year
1987
Genre
Humor
Number of Pages
516 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
30.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pk2945.S54 1987
Table of Content
Preface Acknowledgements Prologue 1. The Laughter of Ganesa Act One: Satire 2. The Laughter of the Sons of Bharata 3. The Laughter of Kali 4. The Laughter of the Child 5. The Laughter of Kama Act Two: Humor Scene One: The Human Comedy 6. The Laughter of the Weaver 7. The Laughter of the Jackal Scene Two: The Divine Comedy 8. The Laughter of Krsna 9. The Laughter of Siva Epilogue 10. The Laughter of Kumara Bibliographic Essay Bibliography of Indian Texts Cited Illustration Citations Index of Indian Texts and Authors Cited Subject Index
Copyright Date
1987
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lccn
87-011268
Dewey Decimal
891/.4
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes
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