An Essay on Laughter: Its Forms, Its Causes, Its Development and Its Value
by James Sully
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Chapters (17)
- AN ESSAY ON LAUGHTER by JAMES SULLY
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
- CHAPTER II. THE SMILE AND THE LAUGH.
- CHAPTER III. OCCASIONS AND CAUSES OF LAUGHTER.
- CHAPTER IV. VARIETIES OF THE LAUGHABLE.
- CHAPTER V. THEORIES OF THE LUDICROUS.
- CHAPTER VI. THE ORIGIN OF LAUGHTER.
- CHAPTER VII. DEVELOPMENT OF LAUGHTER DURING THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF LIFE.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE LAUGHTER OF SAVAGES.
- CHAPTER IX. LAUGHTER IN SOCIAL EVOLUTION.
- CHAPTER X. LAUGHTER OF THE INDIVIDUAL: HUMOUR.
- CHAPTER XI. THE LAUGHABLE IN ART: COMEDY.
- CHAPTER XII. ULTIMATE VALUE AND LIMITATIONS OF LAUGHTER.
- NOTES
- INDEX.
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