ALVIN DAHN
STUDIES ON HUMOR & LAUGHTER: Comedy, the Comic, and the like
Friday, September 24, 2010
Quintilian on Humor (II)
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According to Quintilian, humor can be applied to oratory in three manners: 1. retorting or deriding other people’s arguments; 2. sayin...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Quintilian on Humor (I)
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Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria (ca. 93 A .D.) is believed the second systematic work (following Cicero ’s De Oratore , of course) which d...
Vulgarity Appeals
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(The comic graphic is taken intact from : http://www.explosm.net/comics/1769/ and shall be removed from this blog post upon request.) In...
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