 | Lucy Munro - 2005 - 300 pages
...combative - relationship between the audience and the comic genre. In Thomas Hobbes's multivalent account, 'Sudden Glory, is the passion which maketh those Grimaces...comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves.' 62 This bears some resemblance to Aristotle's Poetics, in which comedy is described as 'a mimesis of... | |
 | Francesco Parisi, Vernon L. Smith - 2005 - 634 pages
...laughter. It is a "sudden glory," a cry of triumph that signals our discovery of superiority to a butt "and is caused either by some sudden act of their...comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves" (Hobbes 1651/1968). The Hobbesian account of motivation is thin, as there are a good many things that... | |
 | Catherine E. Ingrassia, Jeffrey S. Ravel - 2005 - 364 pages
...Such laughter is best described, in Hobbes' famous term, as "sudden glory," the rush of glee caused "by the apprehension of some deformed thing in another,...comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves."" Given our current emphasis on "politeness" and the rise of sentimentality, we might easily associate... | |
 | Lucy Munro - 2005 - 288 pages
...both of Hobbes's laughter-providing situations, 'some sudden act of their own, that pleaseth them' and 'the apprehension of some deformed thing in another,...comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves'. Throughout the play, however, the confusion of clothing and identity, and the depiction of social status... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 2005 - 404 pages
...oftentimes by age and employment. 42. Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces Sudden glor> called LAUGHTER, and is caused either by some sudden act of their Laughter. 1 'Feigned' usually means 'falsely invented' but it may mean simply 'composed by'. See eg... | |
 | Robert Casillo - 2006 - 641 pages
...Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. CB MacPherson (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975), part 1, chapt. 6, 125: 'Sudden Glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces...comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves.' 98 The organization known as the Gambino family, after its leader Carlo Gambino, who ruled from 1957... | |
 | Jerome Neu - 2007 - 304 pages
...restlesse desire of Power after power, that ceaseth onely in Death" (1968 [1651), 161). As for laughter: "Sudden Glory is the passion which maketh those Grimaces...comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves" (125). According to superiority theory, all humor is insult humor. But that is surely too broad a claim.... | |
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is the passion which maketh those ' grimaces ' called ' laughter ' ; and is caused either by some sudden act of their own that pleaseth them, or by the apprehension of some deformed thing in another by comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves. 
