Juan Luis Vives' Concept of Laughter.
A chapter from the book "Selected Proceedings of the First International Conference on Hispanic Humor" is presented. It studies the concept of laughter of the sixteenth-century Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives. Particular focus is given on his book "De Anima et Vita" published in 1528. The book focu...
| Publicado en: | Selected Proceedings of the First International Conference on Hispanic Humor pp. 1 - 13 |
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Digitalia Publishing Corp.
1999
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| Sumario: | A chapter from the book "Selected Proceedings of the First International Conference on Hispanic Humor" is presented. It studies the concept of laughter of the sixteenth-century Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives. Particular focus is given on his book "De Anima et Vita" published in 1528. The book focused on principles of human psychology and the physiological bases of laughter. The author referred to the sixteenth-century view of the physiology of laughter and highlighted the role of that era in the development of Western concepts of laughter. |
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