Between Laughter and Satire

Conal Condren is an Emeritus Scientia Professor at UNSW, a member of two Cambridge Colleges and a fellow both of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and The Social Sciences in Australia. He has published widely and principally in early modern intellectual history. Among his books are The Status and Appraisal of Classic Texts (Princeton U. P. 1985); Argument and Authority in Early Modern England (Cambridge U.P. 2006); Political Vocabularies: Word Change and the Nature of Politics (Rochester U.P. 2017).

• 1 Introduction.- Part I Laughter and the Study of Humour.- 2 Laughter and the Formation of a Concept of Humour.- 3 The Universality and the Genealogy of Humour.- Part II Method and Its Limits in the Historical Study of Humour.- 4 Context and Intention.- 5 Translation and Reception.- Part III Defining Satire and Satiric Humour.- 6 Definition by Dictionary, Origin and Implications.- 7 Definition by Adjacent Terms, Genre and Satiric Definition.- Part IV Satiric Humour in Popular Culture: The Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister Television Satires.- 8 Theory and the Absent Political System.- 9 The Satiric Presence of Political Discourse.- 10 Conclusion.- Bibliography.