Reviews

Humour by Terry Eagleton

michelemo's review

funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

yates9's review

2.0

A cross reference to classic philosophy and fictional texts to different types of humour in an attempt to define the boundaries of this term.

I can’t remember anything about the book, it is a reference spaghetti with no real point.

simpulacra's review

4.0

I don’t like the whole “Eagleton wrote this for himself” thing because he obviously wrote this specifically for me. I enjoyed the hell out of this book. As funny as it was enlightening. Analyzing humor is important I think because it’s something difficult to actually wrap our brains around. This was a great, easy and quick read. I recommend it for anyone interested in comedy of any form.

nikola_zelic's review

informative relaxing fast-paced

2.25

fisumlucas's review

3.0

Talvez uma classificação injusta para o livro, mas os primeiros 2 capitulos arruinaram-me com as 500 referências a autores e obras por parágrafo. Acho que estava à espera de algo diferente (talvez como no início do último capítulo, onde o Eagleton se foca numa só obra)

eleanorvacant's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

2.0

isabelledoyle96's review

adventurous informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

Lots of interesting info on Anglo-Irish humor and not much on literally any other kind of humor

mariamhb's review

1.0

I did not enjoy the book at all. I struggled to finish it. Though it is short, it is far from being a light read. This is the first book I read for the author, it seems from the other reviews that this a familiar style of writing for him.

I found it to be circulating more or less around one idea. Filled with references to other literature, which of course, makes sense since it is a literary criticism, I guess, but I mean it is FILLED with it.

it's funny how a book about humor can be so tedious

vlodko62's review

4.0

Literary criticism, philosophy, history, sociology and even theology - with jokes! Oh, my!