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On the Problem of the Comic: A philosophical study of the origins of laughter (Language, Media, & Education Studies)

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An academic study of the aesthetics of the comic; the question of why human beings laugh; the essence of the aesthetics of comedy as a theatrical genre; an explanation of the nature of the comic stimulus, that which provokes laughter; an analysis of the phenotypic expressions of that stimulus in various areas of daily life.

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21 January 2017
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