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Sudden Glory by Barry Sanders, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Barry Sanders

Current price: $31.00
Sudden Glory by Barry Sanders, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Sudden Glory by Barry Sanders, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Sudden Glory by Barry Sanders, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Barry Sanders

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Sudden Glory presents the history of one of the most evanescent but powerful forms of human expression - laughter. Here is the first book to look not at humor or comedy, but it laughter itself - and specifically at the way laughter evolved into an effective weapon for political subversion. Barry Sanders asks What did people laugh at? And why? What was the Church's attitude? The Rabbis'? Who could do it, when, and at whom? When did the joke first appear? Sudden Glory records the changes in attitudes toward laughter from the ancient world down to the present, with specific emphasis on cultural shifts from the late Middle Ages, when the Church's reach into the realm of the body was felt throughout society, through the end of the eighteenth century, when only deviants and derelicts laughed freely. Along the way, Sanders imagines the voices of women and peasants, whose laughter often went unrecorded, but surely not unheard. Sanders concludes with a brilliant chapter on contemporary laughter, beginning with "sick" comic Lenny Bruce (with whom he was personally acquainte | Sudden Glory by Barry Sanders, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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