TY - BOOK ID - 8063474 TI - Of Corpse : Death and Humor in Folkore and Popular Culture AU - Narvaez, Peter AU - Narváez, Peter. PY - 2003 SN - 0874215595 9780874214815 9786613267047 1283267047 0874214815 9780874214819 9780874215595 9781283267045 PB - Utah State University, University Libraries DB - UniCat KW - Death. KW - Death KW - Anthropology KW - Social Sciences KW - Folklore KW - Dying KW - End of life KW - Life KW - Terminal care KW - Terminally ill KW - Thanatology KW - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8063474 AB - Laughter, contemporary theory suggests, is often aggressive in some manner and may be prompted by a sudden perception of incongruity combined with memories of past emotional experience. Given this importance of the past to our recognition of the comic, it follows that some ""traditions"" dispose us to ludic responses. The studies in Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture examine specific interactions of text (jokes, poetry, epitaphs, iconography, film drama) and social context (wakes, festivals, disasters) that shape and generate laughter. Uniquely, however, ER -