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050 _aPN 6222.P5 .A53 2017
100 _aAncheta, Maria Rhodora G.
_eauthor
245 0 _aHalakhak :
_bnational humor in Philippine popular cultural forms /
_cMaria Rhodora G. Ancheta
260 _aDiliman Quezon City, Philippines :
_bUniversity of the Philippines Press,
_cc2017
300 _axxviii, 279 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c26 cm.
365 _bPHP600
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _a1. Humor in popular theatre and cinema -- 2. Humor in the popular visual arts -- 3. Humor in popular joke work and popular literature.
520 _aThis 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.
650 _aPhilippine wit and humor (English) -- History and criticism
942 _2lcc
_cBK
999 _c18821
_d18821