- Gebundene Ausgabe: 256 Seiten
- Verlag: Harper (23. November 2010)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0061825913
- ISBN-13: 978-0061825910
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,5 x 14,8 x 2,4 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 529.431 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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“Warmly appealing . . . . This book’s long view, and its deep eccentricities, are what give it a burnished glow . . . . It’s a pleasure to sit around the gently crackling fire that is Mr. Johnson’s mind.” (New York Times )
“Johnson assembles a truly enlightening and readable history of humor.” (Washington Post )
“A rich set of essays . . . . Johnson casts a wide net and he hauls in good material . . . . Fine anecdotes, examples, and insights . . . . Handsomely written.” (The Economist )
“Johnson masterfully weaves a narrative line among the figures, many of whom don’t spring to mind as comic, with a deep appreciation for their wit in writing, filmmaking, painting, and living.” (Booklist (starred review) )
“Johnson assembles a truly enlightening and readable history of humor.” (Washington Post )
“A rich set of essays . . . . Johnson casts a wide net and he hauls in good material . . . . Fine anecdotes, examples, and insights . . . . Handsomely written.” (The Economist )
“Johnson masterfully weaves a narrative line among the figures, many of whom don’t spring to mind as comic, with a deep appreciation for their wit in writing, filmmaking, painting, and living.” (Booklist (starred review) )
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The author of the masterly volumes Intellectuals, Creators, and Heroes returns with a collection of biographical portraits of the greatest humorists and wits in history.
In Intellectuals, Paul Johnson offered a fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In Creators, he examined a host of outstanding and prolific creative spirits. And in Heroes, he brought together a galaxy of commanding figures from the annals of Western history. Now Johnson turns his impressive intellect and piercing insight to the finest wits of the Western world.
His is a selective survey across history and includes a diverse cast of legendary humorists who got a grand kick out of life, including Benjamin Franklin and the Marx Brothers, Charles Dickens and Damon Runyon, W. C. Fields and Samuel Johnson, William Hogarth and James Thurber. Including darkest humor, broad satire, bawdy wit, biting sarcasm, and more, this entertaining and erudite collection showcases some of our sharpest minds reflecting on the human condition's follies, pretensions, and foibles with that greatest of gifts: humor.
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Humor's high priests and the fond pleasures they bring us yet
20. Januar 2011
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British author Mr. Johnson's longevity allowed him a personal acquaintance with several of the original humorists recounted in this delightful book. His erudite perspective allows inclusion of seminal figures such as Hogarth and Rowlandson from centuries prior to the 20th, as well. Each of the featured characters gets a chapter describing his or her (comedy is not only a man's game; Groucho Marx and W. C. Fields are joined by female wits such as Dorothy Parker and Nancy Mitford) role in the evolution of timeless amusements via stage, screen and in print.
The book's organization is ideal for the reader seeking to spend an hour or two at a sitting. The summation of each artist's era and impact is so thorough that it requires an index. At the conclusion of the book, Johnson leaves off with a helpful set of recommendations about the best reference works to consult on each of the principals. By the time a reader has reached that section, it is a sure bet that at least a few of these luminaries will capture his or her interest sufficiently to warrant deeper investigation.
The pleasure that Paul Johnson takes in his own erudition suffuses his book with a soaring sense of enjoyment that strikes a perfect note for such a treatment.
The book's organization is ideal for the reader seeking to spend an hour or two at a sitting. The summation of each artist's era and impact is so thorough that it requires an index. At the conclusion of the book, Johnson leaves off with a helpful set of recommendations about the best reference works to consult on each of the principals. By the time a reader has reached that section, it is a sure bet that at least a few of these luminaries will capture his or her interest sufficiently to warrant deeper investigation.
The pleasure that Paul Johnson takes in his own erudition suffuses his book with a soaring sense of enjoyment that strikes a perfect note for such a treatment.
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Can we laugh at anyone?
6. Januar 2011
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Continuing in his line of successful group biographies such as "intellectuals" and "heroes," Johnson gives us a series of short bios on humorists. The book is inconsistent. The introduction is a hilarious historical background to the subject, but the chapters are rather dry. Descriptions of visual art without reproductions are difficult to make interesting, but also there are well-told anecdotes. The last chapter turns into a digression on style and language and ends with the depressing but probably accurate observation that our current culture is too awfully serious and anti-humor.
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Humor, in the broad sense
14. Dezember 2010
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If not for humor, where would we be? Paul Johnson has explored the tricky realm of it and has put together a book presenting characters of humor over the centuries. While not exactly the book I had expected, the author has many entries of note.
Beginning with the English painter William Hogarth, Johnson offers up a series of writers, other artists and actual comedians to describe humor during the last three hundred years. Description is the key word here as commenting about humor and experiencing it are two very different things. It's difficult to gauge the laughs one might find in Hogarth, Thomas Rowlandson or Toulouse-Lautrec without seeing their works in front of you. Johnson is better when offering up comedic lines from Benjamin Franklin, say, or Noël Coward. These read well.
One gets the impression that Paul Johnson is a very funny man and his introduction is terrific. My only wish is that the rest of the book followed suit with more humor in its content.
Beginning with the English painter William Hogarth, Johnson offers up a series of writers, other artists and actual comedians to describe humor during the last three hundred years. Description is the key word here as commenting about humor and experiencing it are two very different things. It's difficult to gauge the laughs one might find in Hogarth, Thomas Rowlandson or Toulouse-Lautrec without seeing their works in front of you. Johnson is better when offering up comedic lines from Benjamin Franklin, say, or Noël Coward. These read well.
One gets the impression that Paul Johnson is a very funny man and his introduction is terrific. My only wish is that the rest of the book followed suit with more humor in its content.
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