Framing Literary Humour

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Informação do Produto

ISBN9781501371998
AutoresDr. Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard
EditoraBloomsbury Publishing Plc
FormatoCapa mole
Número de páginas208
Peso (kg)0,304
Data de Publicação29/07/2021
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Descrição do Produto

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 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 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.