Humor Studies - Appropriate Incongruity
I have at times in my life been strangely obsessed with that which makes us laugh.
In college I wrote a ninety page thesis on the way that people use humor in their daily lives. I just found a box of books from that era, so I've rekindled my interest with this ongoing series in humor studies.
Today we will be discussing appropriate incongruity as it is understood in Elliott Oring's 2003 book Engaging Humor.
In college I wrote a ninety page thesis on the way that people use humor in their daily lives. I just found a box of books from that era, so I've rekindled my interest with this ongoing series in humor studies.
Today we will be discussing appropriate incongruity as it is understood in Elliott Oring's 2003 book Engaging Humor.
"the perception of an appropriate relationship between categories that would ordinarily be regarded as incongruous."
Previous adventures in Humor Studies: Can a landscape be funny?
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