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Halakhak : national humor in Philippine popular cultural forms / Maria Rhodora G. Ancheta

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Diliman Quezon City, Philippines : University of the Philippines Press, c2017Description: xxviii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9789715428477
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN 6222.P5 .A53 2017
Contents:
1. Humor in popular theatre and cinema -- 2. Humor in the popular visual arts -- 3. Humor in popular joke work and popular literature.
Summary: 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.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Annex Filipiniana Communication FIL PN 6222.P5 .A53 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000016580

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.

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.

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