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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