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Chargement... Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It (édition 2019)par James Geary (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreWit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It par James Geary
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) lschiff | Sep 24, 2023 |   ) Jon_Hansen | Jun 22, 2023 | https://thebeerthrillers.com/2021/04/06/book-review-wits-end-james-geary/ For a quick excerpt of my review: ".....I wish there was more substance to this, and more on ‘how wit is derived’ rather than describing various forms of wit. Because I think we can all point to something witty when we hear / see / read it; and so I rather see the inner workings, the behind the scenes, rather than the obvious and what I can clearly see in front of me. I think this is an entertaining read, but I think it just lacks a lot of substance and could use a lot more to it. Frankly wish the general idea behind it was a bit more expansive than what we got, or maybe the scope was a bit different than what the book alluded to it being. Similar to my beer reviews, where I gave my Untappd score, followed the global average Untappd rating, I will do the similar here but with GoodReads. GoodReads and LibraryThing are my primary forms of Book Cataloguing and recording using apps; they are basically the Untappd for the book world. I started with LibraryThing many years ago (honestly can’t even remember, but I want to say 2013 or maybe 2012. Sadly, GoodReads has surpassed it and I use that much more now (despite my not caring – and actually loathing – of Amazon). GoodReads only lets you review in full stars, where LibraryThing let you review down to the 1/4th star. So I will most likely be giving my review scores to the 1/4th star (similar to Untappd letting you review to the 1/4th bottle cap), but showing my rounded score via GoodReads, and then showing the global average GoodReads score. My GoodReads score: **3/4 (rounded – ***) Global GoodReads Score: 3.32 (as of 4.5.20)." Thanks for reading. Be sure to check out my blog for more book reviews, beer reviews, brewery news, etc. ( ) BenKline | Jun 30, 2021 | ) dllh | Jan 6, 2021 | Geary lost my interest when he began retelling cloying tales of witty experiences he found in literature. Geary is a collector and in this book he mends the disparate parts into a mismatched whole. (  ) cakecop | Dec 1, 2019 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"A witty book about wit that steers an elegant path between waggishness and wisdom."--Stephen Fry. In this whimsical book, James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns demonstrate the essence of creativity. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there's the serendipitous wit of scientists, the crafty wit of inventors, the optical wit of artists, and the metaphysical wit of philosophers. In Wit's End, Geary embraces wit in every form by adopting a different style for each chapter; he writes the section on verbal repartee as a dramatic dialogue, the neuroscience of wit as a scientific paper, the spirituality of wit as a sermon, and other chapters in jive, rap, and the heroic couplets of Alexander Pope. Demonstrating that brevity really is the soul of wit, Geary crafts each chapter from concise sections of 200, 400, or 800 words. Entertaining, illuminating, and entirely unique, Wit's End shows how wit is much more than a sense of humor." -- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)809.7Literature By Topic History, description and criticism of more than two literatures ComedyClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: (3.25)
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