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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Terry EagletonPublisher: Yale University Press Imprint: Yale University Press Dimensions: Width: 12.70cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 19.70cm Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9780300255027ISBN 10: 0300255020 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 10 May 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsTerry Eagleton offers a concise and playful primer in Humour. . . . A sensitive appraisal of humor's contradictory role in politics, where it can serve to level hierarchies but also to erode compassion and neutralize dissent. . . . Eagleton proves a witty and opinionated, if not exactly sidesplitting, tour guide. --Julian Lucas, Harper's Delightfully valuable. . . . Each sentence is short and comprehensible, and yet each sentence also seems to contain another new reference or idea. The text can be read quickly as rather funny in itself, or slowly to pick through the hidden depths that lurk behind each new example. . . . Humour is a splendid introduction to the topic. --Megan Volpert, Popmatters Terry Eagleton offers a concise and playful primer in Humour. . . . A sensitive appraisal of humor's contradictory role in politics, where it can serve to level hierarchies but also to erode compassion and neutralize dissent. . . . Eagleton proves a witty and opinionated, if not exactly sidesplitting, tour guide. --Julian Lucas, Harper's Delightfully valuable. . . . Each sentence is short and comprehensible, and yet each sentence also seems to contain another new reference or idea. The text can be read quickly as rather funny in itself, or slowly to pick through the hidden depths that lurk behind each new example. . . . Humour is a splendid introduction to the topic. --Megan Volpert, Popmatters ""Terry Eagleton offers a concise and playful primer in Humour. . . . A sensitive appraisal of humor's contradictory role in politics, where it can serve to level hierarchies but also to erode compassion and neutralize dissent. . . . Eagleton proves a witty and opinionated, if not exactly sidesplitting, tour guide."" --Julian Lucas, Harper's ""Delightfully valuable. . . . Each sentence is short and comprehensible, and yet each sentence also seems to contain another new reference or idea. The text can be read quickly as rather funny in itself, or slowly to pick through the hidden depths that lurk behind each new example. . . . Humour is a splendid introduction to the topic.""--Megan Volpert, Popmatters Author InformationTerry Eagleton is distinguished visiting professor of English literature, University of Lancaster, and the author of more than fifty books in the fields of literary theory, postmodernism, politics, ideology, and religion. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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