Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age, Hardcover by Dekker, Rudolf, Like ...

by Rudolf M. Dekker

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Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age, Hardcover by Dekker, Rudolf, ISBN 0333746740, ISBN-13 9780333746745, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Based on printed jestbooks, farces, comic paintings, and especially the humor of Aernout van Overbeke, this book studies the role of humor in Dutch culture prior to the rise of Calvinism. Chapters consider the origins of jokes, the etiquette of laughter, the use of humor in written and visual culture, Overbeke's anecdotes, polarity and inversion, and the recent renewal of humor in Dutch culture. Dekker teaches history at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan The Limited
• Year: 2001
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780333746745
• Condition: Fine

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