Humour
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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.
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
- Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious (1905) by Sigmund Freud
- Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic (1901) by Henri Bergson
- Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
- List of publications in humor research
- A History of Derision
- Le Rire de résistance
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