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Risible : Laughter Without Reason and the Reproduction of Sound by Delia Casadei is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Risible : Laughter Without Reason and the Reproduction of Sound about?
<b>A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.</b><br><br><i>Risible</i> explores the forgotten history of laughter, from ancient Greece to the sitcom stages of Hollywood. Delia Casadei approaches laughter not as a phenomenon that can be accounted for by studies of humor and theories of comedy but rather as a technique of the human body, knowable by its repetitive, clippe
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Delia Casadei
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520391338
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Music, History, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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