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Varieties of Humorous Experience
Edman, Irwin | March 29, 1922 issue

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The article focuses on the book "The Sense of Humor," by Max Eastman. Eastman writes in his preface that he has tried to solve the problem of humorous laughter. And if he has taken one valid step toward that solution, it will please his purpose better than any amount of the success that might be called literary. To the mind of the present reviewer it is precisely for its literary quality, for its warmth of suggestion and appreciation, for its happy epithets and illustrations that the book is chiefly interesting. But since it is rather as a psychological monograph that the author wishes it to be taken, it is perhaps well to state the thesis of the volume at the very beginning.

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SENSE of Humor, The (Book); EASTMAN, Max, 1883-1969; EPITHETS; LITERATURE; WIT & humor; LAUGHTER
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