TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ancheta, Maria Rhodora G.
TI  - Halakhak : : national humor in Philippine popular cultural forms / 
SN  - 9789715428477
AV  - PN 6222.P5 .A53 2017  
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Diliman, Quezon City
PB  - University of the Philippines Press
KW  - Philippine wit and humor (English) -- History and criticism
KW  - Humor in literature
KW  - Popular culture -- Philippines -- Humor
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Humor in popular theatre and cinema -- 2. Humor in the popular visual arts -- 3. Humor in popular joke work and popular literature
N2  - This book chief point is the need for a sense for language, which is the basic poetry sense, our most intimate sense of our human reality; and the need for one to imagine what a given word-weave says/ imagines. The word-weave itself as it speaks is already a reading or interpretation of the writer's experience, as lived or as imagined; what it means then is not an abstraction but an experience
ER  -