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Collected Scientific Articles on the Philosophy and the Philology

Issue 18. 2012 y.

Laughter in the world of culture

 This edition is the eighteenth issue of the collected scientific articles on the philosophy and the philology devoted to the problem of the laughter and tts features. The articles consider the philosophical, cultural, anthropological, philological etc. aspects of the laughter. For philosophers, philologists, students on the humanities and wide circle of readers.

CONTENTS

 

Section 1. LAUGHTER AND FUNNY IN CULTURE

Levchenko V.
Wit and humor: the formation of philosophical and esthetic concepts in the epoch of Modern
7
Raykhert K.
The image of Japanese in «Tokio Jokio»
15
Efimova O.
Functions of laughter in the Medieval Arabic culture
26
Tkachenko A.
Serious in funniest the images of «The Land of Cockayne» in the context of the problem of interrupting of historical time in the medieval culture
37
Sobolevskaya E.
Art and Demon Red Laugh (marginalia to Voloshin’s reflection)
44
Polyakova A.
Poetics of nonsense: genesis, gist and educational potential (on E. Lear’s works)
54
Stolyar M.
Circus and soviet totalitarian practices
60
Zolotaryova O.
Maydan’s as carnivalization of the policy
70

 

Section 2. INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY REMARQUES

Chaika T., Malakhov V.
Laughter of Sergei Krymskyi: from Absurdity to Humour
80
Kirilyuk O.
O. Freudenberg and V. Propp on a Semiotics of Laughing in the Rites, Myths and Fairy-Tales (Universal Cultural aspect)
89

 

Section 3. SCIENTIFIC FEUILLETONS

Opolev V.
Essay: about them, love and logic. Experience of positive irony
101

 

Section 4. TRANSLATIONS

Seyfarth L.
Dahinter steckt immer ein kluger Kopf. Ironie, Fälschung und Moral (translated from German by Krishevskaya L. )
108

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