Humour
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The folklore scholar Gershon Legman devoted several pages to the French conte-en-vers genre in an article entitled "Toward a Motif-Index of Erotic Humor." Legman underlined the significance of this genre in the context of folklore research: | The folklore scholar Gershon Legman devoted several pages to the French conte-en-vers genre in an article entitled "Toward a Motif-Index of Erotic Humor." Legman underlined the significance of this genre in the context of folklore research: |
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Humour is the ability or quality of people, objects, or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. The term encompasses a form of entertainment or human communication which evokes such feelings, or which makes people laugh or feel happy.
Central to this wiki is the notion of black humour.
Related
amusement - black comedy - burlesque - caricature - comedy - funny - entertainment - irony - laughter - parody - ribaldry - ridicule - satire - send-up - spoof
Further reading
- Anthology of Black Humor (1940) - André Breton
- Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor a 1968 book by Gershon Legman
- The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious (1905) by Sigmund Freud
Stith Thompson classification of humor
The folklore scholar Gershon Legman devoted several pages to the French conte-en-vers genre in an article entitled "Toward a Motif-Index of Erotic Humor." Legman underlined the significance of this genre in the context of folklore research:
- The conte-en-vers is therefore the real connecting link between the earlier folktale collections and the modern scientific collections, and is the real repository of the native and original humorous material for nearly two centuries (1650-1850), where little of an original nature and almost nothing native will be found in the jestbooks. The entire literature of the conte-en-vers, whether dated from the burlesque and Aretinesque academies of the 1550's in Italy, or from La Fontaine's contes, "tires de Boccace" as he perfectly frankly admits, in the 1660's ... represents in sum an exceptionally large repertory of jokes and tales, purposely sought from the folk at a period when the jestbooks were already forgetful or contemptuous of folk sources, and far gone in sterile mutual plagiarism (Legman 1962, 237).
... Thousands of obscene motifs in which there is no point but the obscenity itself might logically come at this point, but they are entirely beyond the scope of the present work. They form a literature to themselves, with its own periodicals and collections. In view of the possibility that it might become desirable to classify these motifs and place them within the present index, space has been left from X700 to X749 for such motifs (Thompson 1955-8, 5:514). --Catherine Grise via [1]
X. HUMOR
X0 – X99. Humor of discomfiture
X0. Humor of discomfiture
X100– X199. Humor of disability
X100.Humor of disability X110.Humor of deafness X120.Humor of bad eyesight X130.Other physical disabilities
X200– X599.HUMOR OF SOCIAL CLASSES
X200– X299. Humor dealing with tradesmen
X200.Humor dealing with tradesmen X210.Jokes about millers X220.Jokes about tailors X230.Jokes about butchers X240.Jokes about cobblers (shoemakers) X250.Jokes about other artisans and tradesmen
X300– X499. Humor dealing with professions
X300.Humor dealing with professions X310.Jokes on lawyers X330.Jokes on magistrates X350.Jokes on teachers X370.Jokes on scholars X410.Jokes on parsons X460.Humor concerning other professions
X500– X599. Humor concerning other social classes
X500.Humor concerning other social classes X510.Jokes concerning usurers X520.Jokes concerning prostitutes X530.Jokes concerning beggars X540.Jokes on madmen X550.Jokes on secret societies
X600– X699. Humor concerning races or nations
X600.Humor concerning races or nations X610.Jokes concerning Jews X650.Jokes concerning other races or nations X680.Jokes concerning various cities
X700– X799. Humor concerning sex
X700.Humor concerning sex X750.Jokes on old maids X760.Jokes on courtship
X800– X899. Humor based on drunkenness
X800.Humor based on drunkenness
X900– X1899.HUMOR OF LIES AND EXAGGERATIONS
X910– X1099. Lie: the remarkable man
X910– X959.Lie: the remarkable man: his birth, growth, death, physical powers, strength X910.Lie: the remarkable man X920.Lie: the large man X930.Lie: remarkable person’s physical powers and habits X940.Lie: remarkably strong man X960– X1019.Lie: remarkable person’s skills X960.Lie: remarkable person’s skills X980.Lie: occupational or professional skills X1010.Lie: remarkable mental skills X1020– 1079. Remarkable man’s extraordinary possessions X1020.Lie: remarkable possessions of remarkable man X1030.Lie: remarkable buildings X1060.Lie: other possessions of remarkable man X1070.Extraordinary man’s family X1080– X1099.Lie: occupations of remarkable man
X1100– X1199. Lie: great hunters and fishermen
X1100.Lie: the remarkable hunter X1110.Lie: the wonderful hunt X1120.Lie: the great marksman X1130.Lie: hunter’s unusual experiences X1150.Lies about fishing
X1200– X1399. Lies about animals
X1200.Lie: remarkable animals X1210.Lies about mammals X1250.Lies about birds X1280.Lies about insects X1300.Lies about fish X1320.Lies about reptiles X1340.Lie: extraordinary amphibia and other animals X1370.Lies about imaginary animals
X1400– X1499. Lies about plants, fruits, vegetables and trees
X1400.Lies about plants, fruits, vegetables and trees X1410.Lies about fruits X1420.Lies about vegetables X1450.Lies about field crops X1470.Lies about trees X1480.Lies about flowers X1490.Lie: miscellaneous plant motifs
X1500– X1599. Lies about geography and topography
X1500.Lies about geography and topography X1510.Lies about land features X1520.Lies about mountains and hills X1530.Lies about remarkable soil X1540.Lies about water features X1550.Geography and topography – miscellaneous motifs X1560.Lies about cities
X1600– X1699. Lies about weather and climate
X1600.Lies about weather and climate X1610.Lies about winds and storms X1620.Lies about cold weather X1630.Lies about hot weather X1640.Lies about dry weather X1650.Lies about precipitation and dampness X1660.Lies about climate
X1700– X1799. Lies: logical absurdities
X1700.Lies: logical absurdities X1710.Lies about numbers X1720.Absurd disregard of anatomy X1740.Absurd disregard of natural laws X1750.Absurd disregard of the nature of objects X1760.Absurd disregard of the nature of non-material things X1780.Absurdity based on the nature of the object X1790.Other logical absurdities
X1800– X1899. Miscellaneous lies and exaggerations
X1800.Miscellaneous lies and exaggerations X1810.Tall tales about miscellaneous objects X1850.Other tall tales