Sudden Glory: Laughter as Subversive History Paperback - 1995
by Barry Sanders
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Sudden Glory presents the history of one of the most evanescent but powerful forms of human expression - laughter. Here is the first book to look not at humor or comedy, but it laughter itself - and specifically at the way laughter evolved into an effective weapon for political subversion. Barry Sanders asks What did people laugh at? And why? What was the Church's attitude? The Rabbis'? Who could do it, when, and at whom? When did the joke first appear? Sudden Glory records the changes in attitudes toward laughter from the ancient world down to the present, with specific emphasis on cultural shifts from the late Middle Ages, when the Church's reach into the realm of the body was felt throughout society, through the end of the eighteenth century, when only deviants and derelicts laughed freely. Along the way, Sanders imagines the voices of women and peasants, whose laughter often went unrecorded, but surely not unheard. Sanders concludes with a brilliant chapter on contemporary laughter, beginning with "sick" comic Lenny Bruce (with whom he was personally acquainted), and ending with women stand-up comics, who seem to be finding their voices while male comics are mired in adolescent shtick. Sudden Glory, which contains an extensive bibliography on the subject of laughter, is an important study from one of our most penetrating and playful public intellectuals.
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- Title Sudden Glory: Laughter as Subversive History
- Author Barry Sanders
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New edition
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Beacon Press, Boston, MA
- Date 1995-11-01
- ISBN 9780807062050 / 0807062057
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.97 x 5.48 x 0.98 in (22.78 x 13.92 x 2.49 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 809.7
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