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Humour and Laughter in History : Transcultural Perspectives
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Year: 2014 Publisher: Bielefeld, Germany : transcript Verlag,

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Humour can be used as a "weapon" or as a means of coping with problematic historical events, especially in times of war and crisis. The book presents examples from different cultures (Russia, Europe, USA), from different historical epochs (from the Napoleonic era up to the current time) and from different medias (caricature, journalism, film). By looking at the individual cases it becomes possible to recognize some general structural patterns and to gain a deeper insight into the "functioning" of humour and laughter.

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Roman et caricature au XIXe siècle : Poétiques réalistes entre Illusions perdues et Education sentimentale.
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Genève Librairie Droz

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Au XIXe siècle, la caricature connaît un essor sans précédent en France et les écrivains s’intéressent de près à ce phénomène médiatique qui est à mettre en lien avec l’émergence du réalisme littéraire. Cet essai, partant de la définition de la caricature, décrit sa place dans l’imaginaire des écrivains pour montrer comment ils s’inspirent de ses codes et pratiquent une forme de caricature textuelle. Prenant acte que la caricature est indissociable de ses supports de diffusion, il s’attache ensuite à montrer comment différentes formes éditoriales sont des sources pour le roman réaliste qui, dans sa récupération de la caricature, s’en inspire en même temps qu’il s’en distancie. Ce livre ambitionne ainsi d’étudier la relation entretenue par le roman réaliste à la caricature en s’appuyant sur deux œuvres majeures qui mettent en abyme ce contexte culturel, social et médiatique particulier : Illusions perdues de Balzac et L’Éducation sentimentale de Flaubert.

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Caricature --- Littérature --- Roman --- Balzac --- Flaubert


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Christoph Martin Wieland as the Originator of Modern Travesty in German Literature
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ISBN: 1469657309 1469657295 Year: 2020 Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse,

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In this study the extent to which Wieland contributed to the literary genre of the travesty is established, the poet's approach to his sources as well as the nature and duality of his innovations are investigated, and the level and distribution of his travesties in relationship to the sum total of his literary work in general is appraised.


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Le Nebelspalter zurichois (1875-1921) : Au coeur de l'Europe des revues et des arts
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Year: 2018 Publisher: Genève Librairie Droz

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Cette monographie constitue une étude sur la période fondatrice de la revue satirique illustrée suisse Der Nebelspalter du début de sa parution, en 1875, jusqu'en 1921, soit durant l'âge d'or européen des revues. Il s'agit de retracer la complexité, la place et le rôle de ce monument de la culture helvétique alors que se constitue le champ artistique suisse et que s'engage, par ailleurs, un dialogue international entre des revues se situant à la croisée des mondes artistique et littéraire.


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Humour and laughter in history : transcultural perspectives
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ISBN: 3839428580 3837628582 Year: 2014 Publisher: Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag

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Humour can be used as a »weapon« or as a means of coping with problematic historical events, especially in times of war and crisis. The book presents examples from different cultures (Russia, Europe, USA), from different historical epochs (from the Napoleonic era up to the current time) and from different medias (caricature, journalism, film). By looking at the individual cases it becomes possible to recognize some general structural patterns and to gain a deeper insight into the »functioning« of humour and laughter. »[The study] demonstrates usefully how historical investigations focused on humor emphasize questions not merely about the nature of humor or how it can be identified, but also concerning its functions and applications.« Daniel Derrin, Humor, 31/4 (2018) Besprochen in: Werkstatt Geschichte, 71 (2015), Eckart Schörle


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Manhua Modernity : Chinese Culture and the Pictorial Turn
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Year: 2020 Publisher: University of California Press

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. From fashion sketches of smartly dressed Shanghai dandies in the 1920s, to multipanel drawings of refugee urbanites during the war against Japan, to panoramic pictures of anti-American propaganda rallies in the early 1950s, the polymorphic cartoon-style art known as manhua helped define China’s modern experience. Manhua Modernity offers a richly illustrated, deeply contextualized analysis of these illustrations across the lively pages of popular pictorial magazines that entertained, informed, and mobilized a nation through a half century of political and cultural transformation. In this compelling media history, John Crespi argues that manhua must be understood in the context of the pictorial magazines that hosted them, and in turn these magazines must be seen as important mediators of the modern urban experience. Even as times changed—from interwar-era consumerism to war-time mobilization to Mao-style propaganda—the art form adapted to stay on the cutting edge of both politics and style.

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