Humor by Terry Eagleton
A concise, provocative study that traces theories of laughter from classical superiority models through relief and incongruity accounts, arguing that humor is ambivalent—both socially bonding and potentially aggressive or conservative—and shaped by class, ideology and cultural formations; drawing on literary, philosophical and popular examples, it examines how satire, irony and comic forms expose social contradictions while often deflecting political action, and shows how taste, offense and power relations determine what counts as funny.
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