Framing literary humour: cells, masks and bodies as 20th-century sites of imprisonment

"Contrary to their oppressive design, might structures of imprisonment actually incite humour, itself a form of liberation? Starting from the most obvious cases of imprisonment (war camps, prison cells) and moving to the less obvious (masks, bodies), Containing Humour demonstrates how 20th-cent...

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1. Verfasser: Mathieu-Lessard, Jeanne (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Bloomsbury Academic 2020
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Zusammenfassung:"Contrary to their oppressive design, might structures of imprisonment actually incite humour, itself a form of liberation? Starting from the most obvious cases of imprisonment (war camps, prison cells) and moving to the less obvious (masks, bodies), Containing Humour demonstrates 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 analyzes 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"
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Humour and imprisonment -- Humour in the cell: prison cells and war camps -- Social entrapment: humoristic characters vs. the world -- Humour in the cells: configurations of the body as prison -- Conclusion: a geometry of humour. - Mode of access: World Wide Web
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (200 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781501356582
9781501356575
9781501356568
DOI:10.5040/9781501356582

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