The Soul of Wit : Joke Theory from Grimm to Freud /

by Carl Hill by Carl Hill

€16 · Offered by MW Books

First edition

1993, First Edition. Lincoln & London : University Of Nebraska Press. Witz first became a burning issue for German intellectuals after 1671 when le Père Dominique Bonhours in his Entretiens d'Artiste et d'Eugène informed them that they didn't have any. According to Bonhours, it wasn't really the Germans' fault that they were a little dim, it is just that they live in a cold climate and tend to be fat. A feud

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