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Author: Don Lee Fred Nilsen
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1997-02-28
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn overview of scholarship on humor in British literature from the Middle Ages to the Restoration.
Author: Theresa Hamilton
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013-10-03
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1443853275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe all have the ability to recognize and create humour. But how do we do it? Salvatore Attardo and Victor Raskin have attempted to explain the workings of humour with their General Theory of Verbal Humor. How well does their theory explain the way humour ‘works’ in a particular text, and can it provide us with interesting, novel interpretations? By identifying and interpreting the narrative structures that create humour, this study tests the usefulness of Attardo & Raskin’s humour theory on a specific corpus of fabliaux, parodies and tragedies. Hamilton proposes a supplementation of the General Theory of Verbal Humor to create a means of undertaking what she calls a ‘humorist reading’. By posing the questions ‘why is this humorous?’, ‘how is it humorous?’ or ‘why is it not humorous?’ and providing the theoretical tools to answer them, a ‘humorist reading’ can make a valuable contribution to our understanding of a literary text and its place in society.
Author: Nil Korkut
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9783631592717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book approaches parody as a literary form that has assumed diverse forms and functions throughout history. The author handles this diversity by classifying parody according to its objects of imitation and specifying three major parodic kinds: parody directed at texts and personal styles, parody directed at genre, and parody directed at discourse. The book argues that different literary-historical periods in Britain have witnessed the prevalence of different kinds of parody and investigates the reasons underlying this phenomenon. All periods from the Middle Ages to the present are considered in this regard, but a special significance is given to the postmodern age, where parody has become a widely produced literary form. The book contends further that postmodern parody is primarily discourse parody - a phenomenon which can be explained through the major concerns of postmodernism as a movement. In addition to situating parody and its kinds in a historical context, this book engages in a detailed analysis of parody in the postmodern age, preparing the ground for making an informed assessment of the direction parody and its kinds may take in the near future.
Author: Alleen Pace Nilsen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-11
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 1108416543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores how humor can be explained across the various sub-disciplines of linguistics, in order to aid communication.
Author: Jon Roeckelein
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2002-02-28
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 0313011265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work traces the origins and evolution of the concept of humor in psychology from ancient to modern times with an emphasis on an experimental/empirical approach to the understanding of humor and sense of humor. In addition to more than 3,000 important citations and references pertaining to the history, theories, and definitions of the concept of humor, this reference guide contains more than 380 recent (post-1970) annotated entries on the psychology of humor in its bibliographic section. The book describes various psychological, nonpsychological, and philosophical theories and definitions of humor, and focuses on the methodological concerns of psychologists regarding the scientific investigation of humor. The bibliography is organized under 10 categories, including Bibliographies and Literature Reviews of Humor, Cognition and Humor, Methodology and Measurement of Humor, and Social Aspects of Humor.
Author: Carmen Valero-Garcés
Publisher: Universitat de València
Published: 2011-11-28
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 8437082900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to exploring humor in the academic world. It is a rich collection of essays by an international array of scholars representing various theoretical perspectives and practical orientations in the disciplines of Linguistics, Literature, Cultural Studies, and Translation, but all concerned with the interactional aspects of humor. The two main reasons behind the publication of this volume are, first, to continue the journey along the path towards full recognition of humor as a discipline worthy of research and assessment, and, second, to offer a new and integrating perspective on hu¬mor to showcase the wide range of dimensions that it offers. This book is sure to become an important reference and source of inspiration for scholars in the various subfields of Humor Studies: Linguistics, Literature, Cultural Studies, and Translation.
Author: Peggy Thompson
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1611483727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCoyness and Crime examines the extraordinary focus on feminine coyness in forty English comedies by ten diverse playwrights of the late seventeenth-century. In contexts ranging from reaffirmations of church and king to emerging interests in liberty and novelty, these plays consistently reveal women caught in an ironic and nearly intractable convergence of objectification and culpability that allows them little innocent sexual agency; this is both the source and the legacy of coyness in Restoration comedy.
Author: Book Builders LLC.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 817
ISBN-13: 1438108699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a two-volume A to Z reference on English authors from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, providing information about major figures, key schools and genres, biographical information, author publications and some critical analyses.
Author: Don Lee Fred Nilsen
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2000-03-30
Total Pages: 584
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzes humor in literary works by British authors of the 20th century and provides extensive bibliographical information.
Author: Amy Lai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-01-03
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1108649335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Right to Parody: Comparative Analysis of Free and Fair Speech, Amy Lai examines the right to parody as a natural right in free speech and copyright, proposes a legal definition of parody that respects the interests of rights holders and accommodates the public's right to free expression, and describes mechanisms to ensure that parody will best serve this purpose. Combining philosophical inquiry with robust legal analysis, the book draws upon examples from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, and Hong Kong. While it caters to scholars in intellectual property and constitutional law, as well as free speech advocates, it is written in a non-specialist language designed to appeal to any reader interested in how the boom in online parodies and memes relates to free speech and copyright.
