Publications

Publication details [#53573]

Morreall, John. 2010. Comic vices and comic virtues. Humor 23 (1) : 1–26.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attitude | culture | evaluation | humor | morality

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper accounts for the cultural shift from a commonly negative to a commonly positive Western assessment of humor by exploring the traditional moral drawback towards humor, and providing modern refutations to them.