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Framing Literary Humour

By Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard

Framing Literary Humour

By Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard

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Contrary to what their oppressive design would lead us to believe, might structures of imprisonment actually incite humour? Starting from the most obvious areas of imprisonment (war camps, prison cells) and moving to the less obvious (masks, bodies), Framing Literary Humourdemonstrates 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 analyses 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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
204
Release Date:
2020-01-23
Publication Date:
2020-01-23
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1501356550
ISBN13:
9781501356551
Weight:
454 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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