ALVIN DAHN
STUDIES ON HUMOR & LAUGHTER: Comedy, the Comic, and the like
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Isaac Barrow: "Against Foolish Talking and Jesting" (continued)
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While recognizing the application of wit in humor and the association between wit and sophism (in defending oneself unjustly), Barrow cont...
Friday, November 26, 2010
Isaac Barrow: "Against Foolish Talking and Jesting"
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Misleading though the title may be, this essay by Isaac Barrow (one of the Several Sermons on Evil-Speaking , 1678) advocates a different ap...
Thursday, November 18, 2010
The Puritan Attack (III): William Prynne
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According to Figueroa-Dorrego, William Prynne (1600-1669) had in the English Renaissance launched "the most explicit and extensive reje...
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