10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AGELASTIC»
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cornerstone of agelastic order is based on a Socratic paradigm that values
masculinized ideas over feminized materiality, the very paradigm that comedy
challenges. Culturally empowered masculinity, in other words, is the source of
agelastic ...
William W. Demastes, 2008
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The Sense of Humor: Explorations of a Personality Characteristic
Besides, absolute anhedonia is a rare state, if even exists at all (the same applies
to an absolutely agelastic individual). Therefore, it is an admissible hypothesis
that an anhedonic individual might not be totally agelastic, and that humor ...
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The principal roots of the Greek language
8 Agelastic] of a, neg., and ye\aw, to laugh, is compounded agelastic ; morose,
one who does not laugh. s To graze] also, from ypaw, to eat, is derived .ypaaxs,
grass.—Also, from ypaw is derived gangrene, mortification, so called from its
eating ...
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Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind
Against the spirit of comedy and fun that Myrrhina presents, Cleostrata could
easily be made out an agelastic villainess.14 Instead Plautus has already begun
a process of reorienting our perceptions of, and reactions to, the stock types in
the ...
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Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
Perhaps we have not progressed so far. Hypergelast (n.) A person who will not
stop laughing. It's still up in the air whether the hypergelast or agelastic is more
annoying. Cole Porter famously wrote in a song that all the world loves a clown, ...
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The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in ...
Croker must have been a humorless gentleman indeed, if Walpole's wit could
hardly make him smile, or perhaps it was only that he lived in an agelastic period
when smiles were generally suppressed. If it is true that state funerals in early ...
Robert K. Merton, Elinor Barber, 2011
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Reading Roman Comedy: Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and ...
... of status-identity and power.96 The play has a clear architectus – Toxilus –
who directs the action, sets in motion and stage-manages the play-within-the-
play which constitutes the act of deceit, and ultimately triumphs over agelastic
forces.
Maurice Castelain [Paris, 1906], p. 133) represents, I believe, not so much a
really agelastic attitude on the part of Jonson as a protest against certain forms of
farce and slapstick. 0 Copyright 1959 by Yale University. 163 The Augustan
Mode.
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Slaves, Masters, and the Art of Authority in Plautine Comedy
Although his anger at Tyndarus in Act III leads him to an extreme act of
punishment and to an agelastic rejection of all better feelings, we are able to
perceive this reaction from his own point of view, because his noble motivations
have already ...
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Rethinking Natural Law
... consent, responsibility, privacy, cyberspace problems, bioethics, informatics,
etc., are just some of the immense set of challenges for jurists. The most “
agelastic” (to use the interesting concept of Rabelais9 and Rorty10) will be
certainly lost.
Paulo Ferreira da Cunha, 2012
7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AGELASTIC»
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agelastic is used in the context of the following news items.
How An Apple Watch Web Browser Would Look
— Vitaly Osipov (@agelastic) May 2, 2015. Developer Karen Tsai was also able to get the Apple Watch app running on a jailbroken iPhone ... «International Business Times, May 15»
Zero Day Weekly: ISC hacked, SS7 mobile security, Windows …
Vitaly Osipov (@agelastic) December 28, 2014. Analysis: How Sony and Staples breaches affected public perception of the companies. Ashton ... «ZDNet, Jan 15»
Beckett's Echo's Bones – a story to make people shudder
... idle – heroically so – in the afterlife, but the only person in the entire Commedia who gets a smile out of the otherwise agelastic Florentine. «The Guardian, May 14»
Howard Jacobson: DH Lawrence, forever misunderstood
Between Rabelais and the agelastic (ie those who never laugh) there was a war to the death. And between Lawrence and the gelastic (ie those ... «The Independent, Apr 11»
Paul Krugman, Comic Genius
Well, the agelastic sap is trying his best to be a wit, and I say give him a pass. He is a prof at Princeton and laughter in those parched precincts ... «American Spectator, Aug 10»
Satisdiction, By Ammon Shea
We have everything from nouns such as "agelastic" (a person who never laughs) to a "bully-scribbler" (a bullying writer), by way of verbs such ... «Independent, May 10»
From agelastic to zugzwangs, one man's pick of the weirdest words …
If you sat down and read the whole Oxford English Dictionary, you would need a lot of spare time on your hands. It would be the equivalent of ... «Daily Mail, Sep 08»
