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  • The Philosophy of Humor: What Makes Something Funny

    Author(s):
    Chris A. Kramer (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    Analytic Philosophy, Film-Philosophy, Philosophy
    Subject(s):
    Humor, Philosophy, Laughter, Aesthetics
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Philosophy of humor, Language and Humor, subversive humor, Ethics of laughter, aesthetics
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    ... subversive humor ...
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    ... and some subversive humorists (see Kramer 2020). John Morreall is largely responsible for making the philosophy ...

  • Subversive Humor

    Author(s):
    Chris A. Kramer (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    Analytic Philosophy, Feminist Humanities, Film-Philosophy, Political Philosophy & Theory, Public Philosophy Journal
    Subject(s):
    Philosophy, Literature--Philosophy, Wit and humor, Education, Racism
    Item Type:
    Dissertation
    Tag(s):
    Humor, Subversive Humor, Oppression, Philosophy and literature, Humor studies
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    ... ����� � �� �� ����� ������ ���� ������� � � ))�(*�* %$)��� ���� � ))�(*�* %$)��-�)�)���$���(%��)) %$�"��(%!��*) Subversive ...

  • Dave Chappelle’s Civic Rhetoric: Positive Propaganda in a Liberal Democracy

    Author(s):
    Chris A. Kramer (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    African Philosophy, Feminist Humanities, Film-Philosophy, Political Philosophy & Theory, Public Philosophy Journal
    Subject(s):
    Literature--Philosophy, Philosophy, Wit and humor, Education, Propaganda, Racism
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Subversive Humor, Philosophy and literature, Humor studies
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    ... subversive humor ...

  • Is Laughing at Morally Oppressive Jokes Like Being Disgusted by Phony Dog Feces? An Analysis of Belief and Alief in the Context of Questionable Humor

    Author(s):
    Chris A. Kramer (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    African Philosophy, Analytic Philosophy, Feminist Humanities, Film-Philosophy, Public Philosophy Journal
    Subject(s):
    Philosophy, Ethics, Laughter, Comedy, England, Sixteenth century, Seventeenth century, Racism, Political science--Philosophy
    Item Type:
    Abstract
    Tag(s):
    Subversive Humor, Language and Humor, Laughter and comedy in early modern England, Political philosophy
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    ... subversive humor ...

  • Teofilo Folengo Baldus Glosses Compared 1517 and 1520

    Translator(s):
    Ann E Mullaney (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    Digital Humanists, Renaissance / Early Modern Studies
    Subject(s):
    Italian literature, Renaissance, Reformation, Europe, Sixteenth century, Seventeenth century
    Item Type:
    Translation
    Tag(s):
    Language and Humor, Subversive Humor, Neo-Latin literature, Renaissance and reformation / early modern Europe, Renaissance culture
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  • An existentialist account of the role of humor against oppression

    Author(s):
    Chris A. Kramer (see profile)
    Date:
    2013
    Group(s):
    Film-Philosophy, Philosophy, Political Philosophy & Theory, Public Philosophy Journal
    Subject(s):
    Applied ethics, Wit and humor, Education, Philosophy, Racism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Existentialism, Stereotypes, Subversive Humor, Humor studies
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    ... subversive humor ...
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    ... of explicit and concealed oppression. I then make the case that subversive humor is an effective means ...

  • Incongruity and Seriousness

    Author(s):
    Chris A. Kramer (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy, Political Philosophy & Theory, Public Philosophy Journal
    Subject(s):
    Ethics, Wit and humor, Education, Philosophy, Literature--Philosophy, Language and languages--Philosophy
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Subversive Humor, Humor studies, Philosophy and literature, Philosophy of language
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    ... subversive humor ...
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    ... that can be used toward serious ends; humorists who are serious in their subversion of what the existentialists ...

  • World-Traveling, Double Consciousness, and Laughter

    Author(s):
    Chris A. Kramer (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy, Political Philosophy & Theory, Public Philosophy Journal
    Subject(s):
    Applied ethics, Philosophy, Political science--Philosophy
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Double Consciousness, Humor, Oppression, Subversive Humor, World-Travelling, Political philosophy
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    ... subversive humor ...
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    ... adversarial audience. I focus on what I call “subversive” humor, that which is employed by or on behalf ...

  • Unbinding Genre (Bending Gender): Parody in _Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)_

    Author(s):
    Wajih Ayed (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Gender Studies
    Subject(s):
    Twentieth century
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    comedy, gender, parody, subversion, Tragedy, 20th century
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    ... subversion ...
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    ... the aesthetics of mourning. Key Words: comedy, gender, identity, parody, subversion, tragedy Cite as ...

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