Don Quixote in England : the aesthetics of laughter / Ronald Paulson.

Redeeming laughter : the comic dimension of human experience / Peter L. Berger.

Rabelais's laughers and Joubert's Traité du ris / Gregory de Rocher.

Laughter : notes on a passion / Anca Parvulescu.

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Laughter in literature

Works from the collections

Don Quixote in England : the aesthetics of laughter / Ronald Paulson.

Redeeming laughter : the comic dimension of human experience / Peter L. Berger.

Rabelais's laughers and Joubert's Traité du ris / Gregory de Rocher.

Laughter : notes on a passion / Anca Parvulescu.