Section 1. LAUGHTER AS OBJECT OF INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCHES

Troitskiy S.
Main Tendencies in the Studying of Laughter

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Barkovskiy P.
Philosophical laughter as irony and humour of selfknowledge

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Golubovych I., Nikiforova I.
Phenomenon of the Laughter on the Philosophical and Anthropological Reflection of the V. Tabachkovsky

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Gomilko O.
Humor, Music, Identity: Incongruity and Harmony

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Okorokov V.
Ringing of «machines» or power of presentations (Laughter as selftechnique)

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Afanasyev A.
The problem of children humor

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Levchenko V.
Laughter as an anthropological dimension of culture

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Oblova L.
Daring to laugh

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Kozhemiakina O.
Laughter as a source of trust for life

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Bakanurskiy A.
Comic potential of death

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Section 2. LAUGHTER AND FUNNY IN CULTURE

Dovgopolova O.
Laughter in life of ХІІІth century franciscan (on Chronics of Salimbene de Adam)

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Kyryliuk O.
Jokes about Godparent’s intimate relations: echo of the some ancient ceremonial complex (universal-cultural analysis)

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Mikhaylyuk A.
Hooliganism in the early ХХth century villages of Ukraine as a manifestation of the risorial popular culture

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Savchenko S.
«Anti-behavior», archaic and mythological elements in the religiousness of the sectarian communities of the late XIX–early XX century Ukraine

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Stoliar M.
Practical joke in the context of soviet totalitarian practices

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Zolotariova E.
Special features of the Odessa carnival

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Krasnokutskiy G.
Negative risus-factor: archetypes of «laughter culture» versus ridiculousness of political «realgarity» in the Ukraine’s history through 00-ies

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Section 3. LAUGHTER AND COMIC IN ART

SukhodubT. 
«Tears Invisible…»: About N. V. Gogol’s «Laughing» Culture

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Opolev V.
Personification in art. The sample of Gogol

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Savchenko V.
«Let’s go to the garden!» or comical narratives in landscape art

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Neviarovich N.
Semiotic nature of «laughter» in U. Eco novel «Name of rose»

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Vershina V.
Show-booth reasons of the Silver age

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Sobolevskaya E..
The phenomenon of God’s fool in Andrei Tarkovsky’s film «Stalker»

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Baktybaeva A.
Comic in prose of О. Aubakirov

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Kazanevskiy V.
«New» caricature and existentialism

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Raykhert K.
Monty Python and the Attributive Analogy

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Section 5. TRANSLATIONS

Wischke M.
Die Lüge und das Lachen. Nietzsche über den «Pessimismus der Stärke» (translated from German by O. Korolkova)

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