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Schwartzman, John. 1982. Playing around with words: Humor and post-modern fiction. In Loy, John W., ed. The paradoxes of play: Proceedings of the 6th annual meeting of the Association for the Antropological Study of Play. Leisure Press. pp. 50–56.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English

Annotation

Description of humor in fiction from a cybernetic perspective, i.e. as a type of communication whose essential nature is determined by confusing information at several levels of abstraction creating paradox.