Humour by Terry Eagleton
This short study examines the nature and social functions of humour, surveying classical and modern theories—incongruity, relief and superiority—while showing how laughter can both police and subvert power. It treats humour as ambivalent: capable of radical critique and humanizing insight, yet also of cruelty and conservative reinforcement depending on context and audience. Drawing on literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis and cultural history, it maps forms from the joke and satire to the grotesque and comic and argues that humour is central to human life and ideological struggle.
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