Portuguese modernism began with the antinaturalist
humorism, (5) progressing from there to both futurism, and sensationism.
(49) Hippocrates, citing his
Humorism theory, believed that an excess of black bile in any given organ site caused cancer.
The variation of color in the human body has always intrigued curious minds and is possibly the reason why a "
Humorism theory" was prevalent in ancient times.
As Dante Della Terza explains in "On Pirandello's
Humorism," the "feeling" of which Pirandello speaks is really something much more.
While they were confronted with some harsh realities in the book, the students also enjoyed Syjuco's sense of
humorISM itself was the subject of at least one of the jokes in the book.
In his discussion of Lao She's Rickshaw Boy, John Diran Sohigian describes the context of [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (
humorism) and in particular the relationship between Lao She's novel and Henre Bergson's early twentieth-century theoretical writings on laughter in literature.