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En proposant une exploration du rire chez Marguerite Duras, ce volume collectif aborde une facette méconnue et négligée d’une œuvre réputée ardue et sombre. Le rire, examiné dans l’ensemble de la production (entretiens, textes, théâtre, films) et entendu dans un sens générique, est aussi bien celui qui intervient dans l’œuvre, émis par l’auteure ou véhiculé par ses narrateurs et personnages, que celui suscité par l’œuvre chez ses récepteurs. Qu’elles interrogent ses apparitions et évocations explicites ou se penchent sur les ressorts humoristiques et comiques qui le provoquent, les dix-sept contributions réunies ici permettent de constater l’abondance et l’importance du rire dans l’univers durassien et d’en mesurer la diversité, la complexité et l’ambivalence. Manifestation de joie, sursaut de vie, bouffée d’enfance, pied de nez aux codes, aux conventions et à la raison, le rire apparaît aussi comme l’expression de ce « gai désespoir » que Duras a célébré. Les réflexions présentes dans l’ouvrage, tout en cherchant à dépasser des idées reçues et des interprétations figées, ne sonnent donc pas le glas de la dimension tragique de la création durassienne, elles la font résonner autrement.

Laughter. --- Humor in literature. --- Duras, Marguerite --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Guillevic estimait que son humour n’avait pas été assez étudié. « Humour pour tenir », « humour pour aider à vivre », « humour pour filtrer l’horreur »... L’humour dont il s’agit n’est ni une décoration, ni un jeu de l’esprit, c’est un sourire proche de la nature et de la langue parlée, une force comme à l’affût du mystère de notre condition. Une fraternité. Parce qu’il considère que ces présents entretiens sont importants pour la compréhension de son œuvre, le poète a voulu leur donner comme titre Humour-Terraqué afin de les rattacher au recueil qu’il a le plus longtemps porté en lui.

Poets, French --- Humor in literature. --- Guillevic, Eugène, --- Guillevic, --- Serpieres, --- poésie --- écriture --- humour --- entretien

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Examines how contemporary Mexican literature uses humor to contest heteronormativity.

Mexican literature --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Queer theory. --- Humor in literature. --- History and criticism.

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This volume highlights humour’s crucial role in shaping historical re-visions of the long nineteenth century, through modes ranging from subtle irony, camp excess, ribald farce, and aesthetic parody to blackly comic narrative games. It analyses neo-Victorian humour’s politicisation, its ideological functions and ethical implications across varied media, including fiction, drama, film, webcomics, and fashion. Contemporary humour maps the assumed distance between postmodernity and its targeted nineteenth-century referents only to repeatedly collapse the same in a seemingly self-defeating nihilistic project. This collection explores how neo-Victorian humour generates empathy and effective socio-political critique, dispensing symbolic justice, but also risks recycling the past’s invidious ideologies under the politically correct guise of comic debunking, even to the point of negating laughter itself. 'This rich and innovative collection invites us to reflect on the complex and various deployments of humour in neo-Victorian texts, where its consumers may wish at times that they could swallow back the laughter a scene or event provokes. It covers a range of approaches to humour utilised by neo-Victorian writers, dramatists, graphic novelists and filmmakers – including the deliberately and pompously unfunny, the traumatic, the absurd, the ribald, and the frankly distasteful – producing a richly satisfying anthology of innovative readings of ‘canonical’ neo-Victorian texts as well as those which are potential generic outliers. The collection explores what is funny in the neo-Victorian and who we are laughing at – the Victorians, as we like to imagine them, or ourselves, in ways we rarely acknowledge? This is a celebration of the parodic playfulness of a wide range of texts, from fiction to fashion, whilst offering a trenchant critique of the politics of postmodern laughter that will appeal to those working in adaptation studies, gender and queer studies, as well as literary and cultural studies more generally.' - Prof. Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania , Australia

English fiction --- Comic, The, in literature. --- Arts, Victorian --- Black humor. --- Humor in literature. --- Victorian arts --- English literature --- Black comedy --- Black humor (Literature) --- Black humor in literature --- Dark humor --- Wit and humor --- History and criticism. --- Influence.

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Philogelos ( lover of laughter) is a collection of over 260 jokes of imperial and Byzantine vintage. The humor can seem at times surprisingly modern; at other times it seems so feeble as scarcely to deserve the name. In general it is aimed at the stupidity of persons who are variously called ""scholastics"" or citizens of, e.g., Cyme or Abdera. Many of the anecdotes are transmitted in two different ...

Greek wit and humor --- Greek literature --- Greek wit and humor. --- Humor in literature --- Humour dans la littérature