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  1. Framing literary humour
    cells, masks and bodies as 20th-century sites of imprisonment
    Autor*in: Mathieu-Lessard, Jeanne
    Erschienen: 2020
    Verlag:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York

    Humour and imprisonment -- Humour in the cell: prison cells and war camps -- Social entrapment: humoristic characters vs. the world -- Humour in the cells: configurations of the body as prison -- Conclusion: a geometry of humour "Contrary to their... mehr

    Standort:
    Klassik Stiftung Weimar / Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek
    Signatur:
    308283 - A
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    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
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    Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (GBV)

     

    Humour and imprisonment -- Humour in the cell: prison cells and war camps -- Social entrapment: humoristic characters vs. the world -- Humour in the cells: configurations of the body as prison -- Conclusion: a geometry of humour "Contrary to their oppressive design, might structures of imprisonment actually incite humour, itself a form of liberation? Starting from the most obvious cases of imprisonment (war camps, prison cells) and moving to the less obvious (masks, bodies), Containing Humour demonstrates how 20th-century humour in theory and in fiction cannot be fully understood without a careful look at its connection with the notion of imprisonment. Understanding imprisonment as a concrete spatial setting or a metaphorical image, Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard analyzes selected works of Romain Gary, Giovannino Guareschi, Wyndham Lewis, Vladimir Nabokov and Luigi Pirandello to reconfigure confinement as an essential structural condition for the emergence of humour"--

     
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    Quelle: Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9781501356551
    Schlagworte: Literature, Modern; Wit and humor; Humor in literature; Imprisonment in literature
    Umfang: 195 Seiten
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