Why Does Comedy Give Pleasure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4158075 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tzachi Zamir (0000-0001-6019-4474, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 175-190 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Aesthetics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0904 • E-ISSN: 1468-2842 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/aesthj/ayu008 |
| OpenAlex | W2316383791 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
By way of attempting to explain comic pleasure, this paper proposes an outline for an inclusive theory of comedy — ‘inclusive’ in the sense of amalgamating various past contributions that tend to be thought of as mutually exclusive. More specifically, this essay will (a) propose a teleological definition of comedy, (b) integrate seemingly competing accounts of laughter into a relatively unified explanation, (c) clarify the connection between laughter and comedy, (d) defend a flexible ontology of comic response that enables the coexistence of genuinely competing paradigms of the mind (which, in turn, underlie seemingly competing theories of comic reception), and (e) will suggest how comic pleasure forms an indispensable addition to a theory of comedy
Aesthetics · Art · Comedy · Comics · Epistemology · Laughter · Literature · Pleasure · Teleology · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · Humor Studies and Applications · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |