10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOMERIC LAUGHTER»
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Homeric laughter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Immortal Comedy: The Comic Phenomenon in Art, ...
The two kinds of laughter, Homeric laughter and biblical laughter, are two
extremes (opposites) in the breadth of laughter. Homeric laughter humiliates the
inferior; biblical laughter expresses a lack of faith in the superior's promise. The
first is a ...
2
The
Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite : Introduction, Text, and ...
Levin, D. B. (1982), 'Homeric Laughter and the Unsmiling Suitors',CJ 78/1: 97–
104. Levin, S. (1971), 'The Etymology of νκταρ: Exotic Scents in Early Greece',
SMEA 13: 31–50. Liberman, G. (1999), Alcée: Fragments (Paris). Lightfoot, J. L. ...
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Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins:
Laughter in the History of ...
Their boisterous, highspirited belly laughter has given origin to the expression '
Homeric laughter'. At first glance, laughter in the Iliad and the Odyssey seems to
be the opposite of tragic laughter: a joyful expression of the comic mode. But this
...
Ingvild Saelid Gilhus, 2013
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Tears in the Graeco-Roman World
Lateiner, Donald (1977): No laughing matter. A literary tactic in Herodotus. In:
Transactions of the American Philological Association 107, 173–182. Levine,
Daniel B. (1983): Homeric laughter and the unsmiling suitors. In: Classical
Journal 78, ...
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Deixis and Information Packaging in Russian Discourse
Consider example (5.6): (5.6) [Nabokov 1990: 336] 1 Bud' meste
drugo], uvid' on, čto uvidel ja, be in my place other see he what saw I 2 ego by
možet byt' oxvatil gomeričeskij smex. him COND may be seize Homeric laughter
3 ...
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
Homeric laughter 1883 A roar of Homeric laughter went up from the party. (p. 208
) Harte, Bret. A Waif of the Plains. New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1883. 1937
His ribs ached with the strain of suppressing the ferment of Homeric laughter. (p.
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
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The Contemporary Review
This fable, as little dignified as courteous, may be thrown for food to the populace
who know nothing of Italian affairs ; but in the Peninsula it would only excite
Homeric laughter, were it published in our journals. The writer, knowing nothing
of ...
"The Boys' Brigade, "the Kindergarten " was welcomed to the field of battle with a
shout of Homeric laughter from the veterans. But the volunteers went quietly to
work, undertaking a house-to-house canvass in one of the fighting wards, where
...
John Alexander Cooper, 1904
Great was the merriment at the City Hall! "The Boys' Brigade, "the Kindergarten "
was welcomed to the field of battle with a shout of Homeric laughter from the
veterans. But the volunteers went quietly to work, undertaking a house-to-house ...
Herr von Sybel's ribaldry against the Catholic religion was interrupted by 'Shouts
of Homeric laughter,' '-Roars of laughter,' ' Loud and prolonged laughter,' ' Roars
of laughter.' Finally he -said, ' You may be sure that if Prince Bismarck was ...
Henry Edward Manning, 1877
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOMERIC LAUGHTER»
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Who Is Behind the "Trotskyist Conspiracy"?
In keeping with Stalinist socialist realism, their inept evil deeds caused seizures of Homeric laughter among the people and the Party. And yet ... «International Viewpoint, Apr 15»
