Disaster humor is a category of humor research that has not been much explored in terms of live audience reactions, something this study undertakes at a small improvisational theater in Austin, Texas. In generating the typology of jokes at this particular theater, instances of disaster humor in live performance were collected, coded and compared in terms of categorization and audience reaction. Ultimately this small study produced a promising look at the relationship between joke acceptance and what it meant for intergroup identity as a community, which should be further explored in future research; recommendations for this are made at the close of this work. / text

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, August 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 50-56).

Zugl.: Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss.

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So Kwok Kin. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2002-2003, design report." / Includes bibliographical references. / Chapter 0.0 --- Influences / Chapter 0.1 --- Preface / Chapter 1 --- General Study on Humor / Chapter 1.0 --- Definition / Chapter 1.1 --- Logic of the Humor / Chapter 1.2 --- Humor Process / Chapter 1.3 --- Condition of Humor to Occur / Chapter 1.4 --- Humor and Laugh / Chapter 1.5 --- Humor and Place / Chapter 1.6 --- Function of Humor / Chapter 1.7 --- Criteria of Good Humor / Chapter 2 --- Humor Impact / Chapter 2.0 --- Joie de Vivre / Chapter 2.1 --- Catalogues of Humorous Art / Chapter 2.21 --- Magnify the meaning of everyday life / Chapter 2.22 --- Transcend an ordinary object or event / Chapter 2.23 --- Indicator of our experience / Chapter 2.24 --- Irony / Chapter 2.25 --- Paradox / Chapter 2.26 --- Anomaly / Chapter 2.2 --- The Post Cards / Chapter 2.3 --- Humor and Sublime / Chapter 2.4 --- Tension - Aesthetic of Humor / Chapter 2.5 --- Aesthetic of Humor - Lighten Up / Chapter 2.6 --- It is advantage of Architecture that could house different types of humor / Chapter 2.7 --- "Let us go beyond the expression, to the programming" / Chapter 2.8 --- Bulls and Wits / Chapter 3 --- "Statement Through the juxtaposition of two incongruity or even opposite programs or living style, exposed the ironic relationship of them, exposed the bulls and wits between them." / Chapter 3.1 --- "The juxtaposition of fashion and monastery create an tension in the level of programming, generate from their mentalities, and expressed in materialization, form, function..." / Chapter 4 --- Program / Chapter 4.0 --- Monaster/ vs. Fashion House / Chapter 4.1 --- Monastic Order / Chapter 4.2 --- Manifesto of Monaster/ / Chapter 4.3 --- Bull and Wit of Monastery and Fashion House / Chapter 4.30 --- Soul vs. Body / Chapter 4.31 --- Deprived vs. Luxury / Chapter 4.32 --- Virgin vs. Sexual / Chapter 4.33 --- Meditation vs. Seduction / Chapter 4.34 --- Salvation vs.Consumerism / Chapter 4.35 --- Regularity vs. Quirk / Chapter 4.36 --- Silent vs. Noisy / Chapter 4.37 --- Worship vs. Amusement / Chapter 4.38 --- Community vs. Individual/ / Chapter 4.39 --- Eternal vs. Now / Chapter 4.4 --- Tradition / Chapter 4.5 --- Invention / Chapter 5 --- Site / Chapter 5.01 --- Our very selfhood is constituted by the 'molten lava of event / Chapter 5.02 --- "From the experience of travelling, we judge or measure everything,Cheung Chau." / Chapter 5.03 --- The most dominant feeling of Cheung Chau is the atmosphere of tourism. / Chapter 5.1 --- "In the urban area, individual became 'isolated and inward-looking'." / Chapter 5.2 --- We also need acceptability in travelling. / Chapter 5.3 --- Cheung Chau / Chapter 5.4 --- The Site - Tai Tsoi Yuen Area / Chapter 5.5 --- Consumerism / Chapter 5.6 --- The site have potential to developed into a both touristic and communal place. / Chapter 5.7 --- "in this context, I would like to make a project that could nearly touch and feel." / Chapter 6 --- Design Strategy / Chapter 6.0 --- They should not be the same scales / Chapter 6.1 --- "The world of shopping is an flatten world, all we need is surface" / Chapter 6.2 --- Positive Space vs. Negative Space / Chapter 6.3 --- Inside vs. Outside / Chapter 6.4 --- Time depending Program / Chapter 6.5 --- Permanent vs. Impermanent / Chapter 6.6 --- Play with Icons / Chapter 6.7 --- Tradition vs. Invention / Chapter 6.8 --- "Instead of Lawn, I use Pond" / Chapter 7 --- Drawings / Chapter 8 --- Models / Chapter 9 --- Bibliography / Chapter 10 --- Dedications

Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses. / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / 2031-01-02

The comic in Ulysses needs more attention. The few studies that exist disregard the problems: the adoption of assumptions which limit discussion, the inconsistent terminology, the lingering prejudice regarding comedy as inferior to tragedy. This study begins by examining the common assumption that comedy in Ulysses is either a restraint on Joyce's saeva indignatio, or an affirmation of life; and then looks at the difficulties of comic criticism. Chapter two considers modern comedy, distinguishes three schools of theory, and indicates how these will be considered in relation to Ulysses. Chapter three, countering the assumptions observed in chapter one, discusses the book's refusal to indulge the reader's desire for certainty, illustrating this with a criticism of Kenner's conception of Joycean irony and Goldberg's reading of the 'Nausicaa' episode. Chapter four examines Mulligan: "in risu veritas: for nothing so reveals us as cur laughter" (Joyce). Using Freud's study of aggressive jokes, it works backwards from 'Circe,' where Mulligan is revealed in his true (motley) colours. Chapter five evaluates Bloom's comic/ heroism, working with Bergson's study of social laughter and against Darcy O'Brien. The final chapter considers farce, particularly in 'Cyclops' and 'Circe,' using Bergson's body-as-machine theory and Bakhtin's study of the medieval carnival in Rabelais and his World<.em>.

Zugl.: Hamburg, Helmut-Schmidt-Univ., Diplomarbeit, 2005

Thesis (M.A.)--Youngstown State University, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 62).