"We are amused"

Beyond its elucidation and critique of traditional ‘notation-centric’ musicology, this book's primary emphasis is on the negotiation and construction of meaning within the extended...

Women Rulers throughout the Ages is an engaging and informative biographical compendium of women rulers around the world. Some were bloodthirsty. Some were enlightened. O...

An important figure in the development of modern mathematical logic and abstract algebra, Augustus De Morgan (1806–71) was also a witty writer who made a hobby of collecting eviden...

Angels, demons, and demigods are ubiquitous in popular culture, functioning as protagonists, antagonists, and amused commentators on the folly (or glory) of human existence. ...

This chapter presents the core thought behind the larger argument of the book by appealing to John Locke’s theory of ideas, according to which some ideas have the distinctive epist...

Widely recognised as one of the greatest female letter writers in English, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866) possessed a famous sense of wit and irony, which, together with her keen o...