Date of Award
2017
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Martin, Thomas L.
Abstract
Humor’s effect on the audience’s relationship to the object, or speaker, of humor has often been neglected, and creating a framework by which scholars can examine how humor works to alter the relationship between audience and other fills this gap. Additionally, the definition of science fiction relies on the existence of a cognitively estranging other and under this definition, humor has not been thoroughly studied. This thesis attempts to explain how humor affects audiences cognitively, utilizing Hegel’s theory of self and other, and then applies this theoretical explanation to the field of science fiction and examines its effects.
Extent
61 p.
Recommended Citation
Thurmon, Ryan, "Laughing in Space: Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Towards a New Humor Framework" (2017). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019. 1719.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_6/1719
Identifier
FA00004894
Comments
Includes bibliography.|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Includes bibliography.