Book review: Chiaro, Delia and Debra Aarons (2026). Playing with Food: Language, Humor, and Disgust. Routledge.
VIEW FULL TEXT

How to Cite

Cothren, Alexander. 2026. “Book Review: Chiaro, Delia and Debra Aarons (2026). Playing With Food: Language, Humor, and Disgust. Routledge”. The European Journal of Humour Research 14 (2): 304-8. https://doi.org/10.7592/EJHR.2026.14.2.1263.

Abstract

Book review

VIEW FULL TEXT

References

Bakhtin, M. (1984). Rabelais and his world. Indiana University Press.

Freud, S. (1960). Jokes and their relation to the unconscious (J. Strachey, Trans.). W. W. Norton & Co. (Original work published 1905).

Kristeva, J. (1982). Powers of horror: An essay on abjection (L. S. Roudiez, Trans.). Columbia University Press. (Original work published 1980).

Orwell, G. (1945). Animal farm. Secker and Warburg.

Phiddian, R. (2019). Satire and the public emotions. Cambridge University Press.

Rozin, P., Guillot, L., Fincher, K., Rozin, A., & Tsukayama, E. (2013). Glad to be sad, and other examples of benign masochism. Judgment and Decision Making, 8(4), 439–447. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1930297500005295

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Copyright (c) 2026 The European Journal of Humour Research

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.