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Humor in literature. --- Popa, Vasko --- Criticism and interpretation.
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Humor in literature --- Short story --- Authorship. --- Short stories --- Story, Short --- Authorship --- Fiction --- History and criticism
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French literature --- Humor in literature. --- Laughter in literature. --- History and criticism.
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Culture --- Culture. --- Ethnic wit and humor --- Ethnic wit and humor. --- Humor in literature --- Humor in literature. --- Wit and humor --- Wit and humor --- Wit and humor --- Wit and humor --- Wit and humor. --- History and criticism --- Psychological aspects --- Psychological aspects.
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German literature --- Thematology --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Humor in literature. --- Laughter in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism
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Humor in literature. --- Humour --- Dans la littérature --- Marguerite, --- Marguerite d'Angoulême --- Dans la littérature. --- Dans la littérature. --- Marguerite d'Angoulême
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Wit and humor --- Popular culture --- Humour --- Culture populaire --- Arabic wit and humor --- Arabic literature --- Humor in literature. --- Religious aspects --- Islam. --- History and criticism.
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The book offers a comprehensive account of how humor works in short stories, by presenting a model of narrative comedy that is pragmatically as well as semantically, grammatically and stylistically informed. It is the first study to combine a sequential analysis of the comic short story with a hierarchical one, merging together horizontal and vertical narratological perspectives in a systematic way. The book covers the main areas of linguistic analysis and is deliberately interdisciplinary, using input from philosophy, sociology and psychology so as to touch upon the nature, motivations and functions of humor as a cognitive phenomenon in a social context. Crucially, The Language of Comic Narratives combines a scholarly approach with a careful explanation of key terms and concepts, making it accessible to researchers and students, as well as non-specialists. Moreover, it reviews a broad range of historical critical data by examining the source texts, and it provides many humorous examples, from jokes to extracts from comic narratives. Thus, it seeks to anchor theory in specific texts, and also to show that many linguistic mechanisms of humor are common to jokes and longer, literary comic narratives. The book tests the model of humorous narratives on a set of comic short stories by British and American writers, ranging from Evelyn Waugh and Dorothy Parker, through Graham Greene and Corey Ford, to David Lodge and Woody Allen. The validity of the model is confirmed through a subsequent discussion of apparent counter-examples.
Humor in literature. --- Short story. --- Short stories --- Short story --- Story, Short --- Authorship --- Fiction --- History and criticism --- Authorship. --- Humor. --- pragmatics. --- semantics. --- text linguistics.
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In contrast to the popular cliché of the 'stoic Indian,' humor has always been important in Native North American cultures. Recent Native literature testifies to the centrality of this tradition. Yet literary criticism has so far largely neglected these humorous aspects, instead frequently choosing to concentrate on representations of trauma and cultural disruption, at the risk of reducing Native characters and Native cultures to the position of the tragic victim. This first comprehensive study explores the use of humor in today's Native writing, focusing on a wide variety of texts spanning all genres. It combines concepts from cultural studies and humor studies with approaches by Native thinkers and critics, analyzing the possible effects of humorous forms of representation on the self-image and identity formation of Native individuals and Native cultures. Humor emerges as an indispensable tool for engaging with existing stereotypes: Native writers subvert degrading clichés of "the Indian" from within, reimagining Nativeness in a celebration of laughing survivors, 'decolonizing' the minds of both Native and non-native readers, and contributing to a renewal of Native cultural identity. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Native Studies both literary and cultural. Due to its encompassing approach, it will also provide a point of entry for the wider readership interested in contemporary Native writing. Eva Gruber is assistant professor in the American Studies section of the Department of Literature at the University of Constance, Germany.
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