◎ 作者简介： 特里·伊格尔顿（Terry Eagleton，1943-），当代最杰出的文学理论家、文化批评家。从20世纪60年代末至今，孜孜不倦地探寻新领域、推出新论著，展现了宽广的批评视野与巨大的创作活力，令人叹为观止。著作多达五十余种，重要的有《意识形态导论》《后现代主义的幻象》《理论之后》《生命的意义》《马克思为什么是对的》等。他的《文学理论导论》在国内文化界产生过重大影响。 ◎ 译者简介： 吴文权，毕业于南京大学外国语学院，后留学德国，现任教于广东外语外贸大学。译作包括《文学的读法》《呼吸秋千》（与余杨合译）、《中国文化精要》《西方文化精要》英译本（主译之一）、《中国叙事：批评与理论》等。

Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley skilfully probes some of the most perennial but least understood aspects of humour, such as our tendency to laugh at animals and our bodies, why we mock death with comedy and why we t...(展开全部)

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本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Humour is without doubt a vital element of the human condition but it has rarely been the subject of serious historical research. Yet a closer look at jokes and other comic phenomena shows us that the nature of humour changes from one period to another, and that these changes can provide us with important insights into the social and cultural developments of the past. This impo...(展开全部)

In the shadow of the Gulag, Soviet citizens were still cracking jokes. They had to. Drawing on diaries, interviews, memoirs and hundreds of previously secret documents, It’s Only a Joke, Comrade! uncovers how they joked, coped, and struggled to adapt in Stalin’s brave new world. It asks what it really means to live under a dictatorship: How do people make sense of their lives? ...(展开全部)