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Journal articles on the topic "Humorous plays"

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Kotthoff, Helga. "Oral genres of humor." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 17, no. 2 (2007): 263–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.17.2.04kot.

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The article discusses humorous conversational activities ((e.g. jokes, teasing, joint fantasizing) in the context of genre theory. The high degree of creativity, emergent construction and artistry typical of humor call for a flexible concept of genre which makes sense of modifications and transgressions in communicative processes. Some forms of conversational humor are generic, for example, standardized jokes, joint fantasizing or teasing. Other forms exploit our knowledge of serious genres and activity types (thereby relying on it): e.g. humorous stories about problems, humorous gossiping or
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Bruce, Iris. "Der Proceβ in Yiddish, or The Importance of being Humorous". TTR : traduction, terminologie, rédaction 7, № 2 (2007): 35–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/037180ar.

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Abstract Der Proceß in Yiddish, or the Importance of being Humorous — The article argues for a "humorous" Franz Kafka rather than a kajkaesque one and criticizes the "Kafka myth" which cristallized after WWII and emphasized foremost Kafka's existential anguish. Even before the war Max Brod as well as Walter Benjamin recognized the humorous dimension in Kafka's texts, much of which lies in word plays and gesture; otherwise, the humour in Kafka was largely ignored, especially after WWII. The focus in this article is on English, German and Yiddish cultural contexts and ideologies which have deter
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Mwetulundila, Rauna, and Marinela Maghiar. "Unveiling Namibia's Digital Humour." NAWA Journal of Language and Communication 17, no. 1 (2024): 46–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.59677/njlc.v17i1.49.

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This article explored the humorous and stylistic elements of memes in Namibian online discourse. In the digital age, memes have become an integral part of online communication, offering valuable insights into contemporary language use. Today, memes are widely recognised as short videos or images accompanied by humorous texts, rapidly shared on social media. The incongruity theory of humour helps elucidate the humorous and language elements within memes. The study aimed at analysing selected memes within the Namibian socio-cultural context, shedding light on how language is used to create humor
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McReynolds-Pérez, Julia. "FETAL ASPIRATIONS: THE HUMOROUS MEME AS A MOBILIZING TACTIC." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 27, no. 2 (2022): 193–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.17813/1086-671x-27-2-193.

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This article analyzes the use of humor as a strategy for claims making and activist identity construction through visual production at face-to-face protests and Internet memes. Humorous visual images can serve multiple social movement purposes, including ridiculing and delegitimizing the opposition, neutralizing opponents’ claims, creating a fun and irreverent group identity, and fostering group cohesion through shared enjoyment. This article explores these issues through a content analysis of visual repertoires of contention in the mobilizations around the proposed legalization of abortion in
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Chang, Wei-Lin Melody, and Valeria Sinkeviciute. "role of ‘familiarity’ in Mandarin Chinese speakers’ metapragmatic evaluations of Australian conversational humour." European Journal of Humour Research 10, no. 2 (2022): 74–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.2.651.

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Although research on humorous practices of Anglo-Australians has received much attention, the understanding of those practices by members of various multilingual communities in Australia has not been much studied. In this paper, we look at metapragmatic comments on concept familiarity in relation to conversational humour, particularly focusing on Mandarin Chinese speakers’ perceptions of conversational humour in Australian English. In order to explore what role ‘familiarity’ plays in (inter-)cultural conceptualisation of humour, we analyse interview data where speakers of Mandarin Chinese prov
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Ali Mohammed, Siddig Ahmed. "Translating Humorous Expressions into Arabic with Reference to Loss, Gain, and Compensation." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 8, no. 6 (2019): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.8n.6p.16.

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This study is concerned with translating humorous expressions from English into the Arabic Language with reference to Loss, Gain, and Compensation. The idea of the research developed from an observation by the researcher that when the target audience watches a drama of funny episodes, it is hard to interact, laugh or even smile, although the drama may be accompanied by subtitles in Arabic language. The study aims to illustrate the causes of untanslatability and loss, gain, and compensation in humor translation. To achieve the aims of the study, the researcher selected a sample of 10 humorous q
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Abdalla, Daniel Ibrahim. "“Heredity, Heredity!”: Recovering Henry James’s The Reprobate in Its Scientific and Theatrical Contexts." Modern Drama 64, no. 1 (2021): 67–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/md.64.1.1122.

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The reception of Henry James’s plays has long been scripted by his fiction, overshadowing James’s broad engagement with the concerns of fin-de-siècle drama. This article offers a different approach, reading his play The Reprobate (1895) within its theatrical context and emphasizing its relations with the genre of “Ibsen parodies” – in particular, those produced by authors such as J.M. Barrie and Robert Williams Buchanan. Attention to the play’s humorous treatment of heredity – in the midst of a theatrical scene engaging with the paradigm of degeneration – reveals James as surprisingly in step
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Bres, Julia de, Janet Holmes, Meredith Marra, and Bernadette Vine. "Kia ora matua." Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 20, no. 1 (2010): 46–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/japc.20.1.03deb.

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Many aspects of the use of the Maori language are highly controversial in New Zealand, and humour is one way in which the sensitivities relating to the language can be negotiated in everyday workplace contexts. This article examines the use of the Maori language by Maori and Pakeha participants during humorous episodes at staff meetings in a Maori organisation in New Zealand. The episodes analysed include humour indirectly relating to the Maori language, where the language is not the topic of discussion but its use plays an important implicit role, as well as humour directly focussed on the Ma
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Malyuga, Elena N. "Manipulative Potential of Humor in Business Media Discourse: Drawing up a “Starter Pack” for LSP Teaching." International Journal of Cognitive Research in Science, Engineering and Education (IJCRSEE) 12, no. 1 (2024): 133–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.23947/2334-8496-2024-12-1-133-143.

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The article investigates the manipulative potential of humor in business media discourse and its application in Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) teaching. Recognizing humor as a tool for simplifying complex ideas and engaging a broad audience, the study aims to identify the functional-stylistic means through which humor is conveyed in business media, focusing on its capacity to influence audience perceptions and attitudes. Employing continuous sampling along with descriptive, comparative, and discursive methods, the research analyzes utterances from Russian- and English-language business m
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Kmita, Maria, Karolina Lindner-Pawłowicz, and Agnieszka Libura. "Who does not Find Metaphors Funny? Humor Preferences in Geriatric Patients." Communication Sciences & Disorders 27, no. 2 (2022): 330–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.12963/csd.21885.

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Objectives: Humor plays an important role throughout life, including old age. However, appreciating and understanding humor may be hindered due to dementia and late-life depression, two common old age-related diseases. Still little is known about humor preferences among the elderly diagnosed with dementia, depression or both disorders. This study aims to explore humor preferences in elderly participants with those disorders and their influence on the perceived funniness of more and less cognitively challenging verbal jokes.Methods: A total of 36 elderly participants and 39 students (representi
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Humorous plays"

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Guerrero, C. (Christina). "Designing for a playful future:a review of how humorous play within the urban realm can make adult play a part of everyday life." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2019. http://jultika.oulu.fi/Record/nbnfioulu-201905292235.

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Abstract. Everybody plays. It is a behaviour that is common to all people and indeed most species. A person’s inclination to play is dependant, not only on his mental and emotional state, but also on his surroundings. Despite our physiological separation from the rest of the evolving natural kingdom, our brains have scarcely evolved further than those of our hunter-gatherer forefathers. So often the playful side of adults is forgotten, un-nurtured and neglected, much to the detriment of public physical and mental health. In this ever-changing and fast-paced human society, we are constantly try
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Van, Tonder Anna Magrieta. "On the serious social implications of humorous art." Diss., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2259.

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Modern humour appears to initiate the deconstruction of modern correspondence thinking. A close examination shows the opposite, namely that modern humour forms part of correspondence thought in a complicated reciprocal relationship of disruption and support. Ironically, humour is particularly suited to explicating the deconstruction of correspondence thinking in poststructuralist language theories by being prone to refute cornerstone principles of modernism such as truth, rationality, reliability and permanence. This dissertation focuses on the exceptional suitability of humour to adapt to the
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Roberts, James. "The ludic mode of Pangamonium: an exegesis on the novel: ' Pangamonium '." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/37899.

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This thesis has two components : a novel and an exegesis. Pangamonium is a comic novel that parodies and satirises adventure romances and travel accounts as well as global imperialisms. Francis, an American journalist who has lived in Australia, travels to a tiny Asian country, Panga, a kingdom that has been taken over by a military dictatorship. There he meets Easter, an African on a quest to find the grave and buried treasure of his pirate ancestor. The odd couple endure a comic odyssey together and ultimately liberate a group of enslaved children from a vibrator factory. The Ludic Mode of P
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Roberts, James. "The ludic mode of Pangamonium: an exegesis on the novel: ' Pangamonium '." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/37899.

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This thesis has two components : a novel and an exegesis. Pangamonium is a comic novel that parodies and satirises adventure romances and travel accounts as well as global imperialisms. Francis, an American journalist who has lived in Australia, travels to a tiny Asian country, Panga, a kingdom that has been taken over by a military dictatorship. There he meets Easter, an African on a quest to find the grave and buried treasure of his pirate ancestor. The odd couple endure a comic odyssey together and ultimately liberate a group of enslaved children from a vibrator factory. The Ludic Mode of P
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Alcock, Sophie Jane. "A socio-cultural interpretation of young children's playful and humorous communication : a thesis presented in the fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1663.

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This qualitative and interpretive study explores how young children experience humour and playfulness in their communication. Data were gathered in three early childhood education centres. The ethnographic method used was primarily participant observation, with the aid of a video camera and tape-recorder. Socio-cultural historical activity theory informs both the methodological paradigm of the research and the framework for data analysis. The research focuses on systems of interactions rather than individuals. The diversity and complexity in children's playful and humorous communication is ill
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Books on the topic "Humorous plays"

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Hamlett, Christina. Humorous plays for teenagers. Plays, Inc., 1987.

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Madison, Alan. Pecorino plays ball. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006.

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Narasiṃhamūrti, Eṃ Es. Maduve mā̄rkeṭ mattu itare nage nāṭakagaḷu. Aṅkita Pustaka, 2008.

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Orloff, Rich. Nothing serious: A collection of short comedies. Playscripts, Inc., 2005.

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Rāmēsvaran̲, Cō. Kān̲al nīr kaṅkaiyākiratu: Camūka, nakaiccuvai nāṭakaṅkaḷ. Es. Koṭakē Caha Cakōtarayō, 2006.

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Ayckbourn, Alan. Gizmo. Faber and Faber, 2001.

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Carkin, Gary. Ten plays for the ESL/EFL classroom: Ten short humorous plays for intermediate to advanced levels. Carlisle Publications, 2004.

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ill, Wiese Kurt 1887, ed. Freddy plays football. Overlook Press, 2001.

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Brooks, Walter R. Freddy plays football. Puffin Books, 2002.

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Pavlovich, Chekhov Anton. The essential plays. Modern Library, 2004.

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Book chapters on the topic "Humorous plays"

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Hann, David. "Humorous Play and Its Implications for Classroom Practice." In Spontaneous Play in the Language Classroom. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26304-1_8.

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Hann, David. "Humorous Language Play: Lessons from the Second Language Classroom." In Spontaneous Play in the Language Classroom. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26304-1_9.

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Hann, David. "The Underexplored Role of Humorous Play in the Second Language Classroom." In Spontaneous Play in the Language Classroom. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26304-1_2.

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Yus, Francisco, and Carmen Maíz-Arévalo. "Interpreting Covid-related memes." In Pragmatics & Beyond New Series. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.335.01yus.

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One of the sources of relief, entertainment and socialisation during the Covid pandemic lockdown was the massive exchange of memes on social media and messaging applications. The objective of this chapter is to analyse and categorise 150 Peninsular Spanish memes collected from different interactive channels online (mainly social media and the messaging app WhatsApp) during the strict 2020 Covid lockdown in Spain (March-May 2020). The sample was then analysed under “incongruity-resolution theory” and categorized with the following research questions in mind: (a) what inferential strategies the internet user is expected to perform to interpret these Covid memes correctly; (b) what role text and image play in the eventual derivation of humorous effects from these memes; and (c) what kind of contextual information the internet user is expected to have access to for successful comprehension. Answering these research questions will eventually allow for a differentiation between Covid memes and non-Covid ones, as already intuitively felt by most users.
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Padilla Cruz, Manuel. "Humour at the opening and closing phases of service encounters in small cafeterias and bars in Seville." In Pragmatics & Beyond New Series. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.335.08cru.

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In an interactive context like service encounters, humour becomes essential because of the positive feelings that it generates. These contribute to an amicable ambiance and tighten bonds of union. Hence, humour greatly impacts customer satisfaction, revisit intention and, ultimately, customer loyalty. Although individual skills and sense of humour come into play, awareness of the role of humour often prompts many baristas and customers to use it in their transactions. Its various forms and functions in distinct service encounters have already received some attention, but its use at the opening and closing phases of these encounters with a phatic purpose still remains an underexplored issue. This chapter will compare data from two previous studies in order to determine the types of humour wherewith such encounters were opened and closed at small establishments in Seville. It aims to ascertain how humorous tokens achieved proximity and strengthened social relationships, and to elucidate whether their use to create phatic communion was affected by factors like the interlocutors’ age and the time segment when the encounters took place.
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Chirico, Miriam M. "Leguizamo’s Comic Frame." In Taking a Stand. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496835482.003.0008.

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As a theatrical monologist, John Leguizamo uses his on-stage persona to explore Latino identity. Through his comedic impersonations, he plays both himself as an ethnic minority as well as the other characters who view him from a majority-race perspective, and through these humorous interactions, he dramatizes the process of identity formation. The autobiographical one-man shows he performs on the stage show the challenges of identity construction for an ethnic minority, while also emphasizing how self-construction depends upon boundaries of difference. In other words, by impersonating himself as well as the other, he demonstrates how his sense of self is contingent upon an erroneous majority-white gaze. In this chapter, contributor Miriam M. Chirico show how as he constructs these humorous and poignant representational layers in performance, Leguizamo makes visible the mask he and other ethnic minorities wear, reminding audiences of the struggle for selfhood that lies behind such masks.
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Prokhorov, Dmitry. "Satirical and Humorous Works in the Literary Heritage of the Karaite Writer and Poet Aron Ilyich Katyk (1883–1942)." In Laughter and Humor in the Slavic and Jewish Cultural Traditions. Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Sefer, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/2658-3356.2021.8.

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The purpose of the article is to analyze the satirical and humorous works of the famous Karaite writer and poet Aron Ilyich Katyk (1883–1942). Among his works it should be noted such as: “The Diary of the Groom”, “Alyshmagan Bashka Kalpak Yarashmaz” (“A Hat Does Not Climb on an Unaccustomed Head”), “Who is Right?”, “Notes of a midrashnik” (i.e. a pupil), “Teacher” and many others. All these works are distinguished by subtle humor and sarcasm. In his works, marked by a genuine literary gift and talent, A.I. Katyk ridiculed many of the vices and shortcomings that were inherent in the modern society. In his stories, feuilletons and plays A.I. Katyk, in a satirical light, portrayed people who sought to imitate European manners, but who continued to be inert with prejudices and outdated traditions of the Karaite community. The satirical and humorous works of A.I. Katyk is a valuable source of folklore and ethnographic character.
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Dover, K. J. "Comedy." In Ancient Greek Literature. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192892942.003.0005.

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Abstract The names of comic dramatists whose plays were performed at the City Dionysia at Athens were not embodied in a permanent record until 486 B.c. It is quite possible (cf. p. 50) that humorous dramatic performances had played some part in the festival for a very long time - possible, that is, that comedy is far older than tragedy but long regarded as ephemeral, topical, and not to be perpetuated in written texts. Aristophanes is the only comic poet of the fifth century B.c. whose plays we can read now; eleven (out of at least forty which he wrote) have survived. He first produced a play in 427, and of the surviving eleven the earliest, Achamians, is datable to 425. We know something, through citations and fragments, about some comedies produced in the period 440-425, but as we move back in time the evidence dwindles rapidly, and very little indeed can be said with assurance about the nature of the comedy contemporary with Aeschylean tragedy.
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Hammett, Daniel, Laura S. Martin, and Izuu Nwankwọ. "Between Jokes: Silence and Ambiguities within Humour." In Humour and Politics in Africa. Policy Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529219715.003.0004.

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This chapter turns to look at the role of silence within humour and humorous exchanges. While silence may seem like the antithesis of humour, it plays a powerful role both in the delivery of a joke as well as in the political work that humour can do. Silence, in other words, is its own form of agency that also enacts multiple roles and takes on a range of meanings. Again, we use empirical examples from the continent (particularly Nigeria and South Africa) to illustrate more precisely the role of humour in humour and political work.
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Horrall, Andrew. "Darwin, Du Chaillu and Mr Gorilla: the lions of the season." In Inventing the Cave Man. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526113849.003.0002.

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This chapter explores how Charles Darwin’s 1859 book On the Origin of Species and the explorer Paul Du Chaillu’s almost simultaneous encounters with gorillas in West Africa focussed popular fears about evolution. Gorillas were a frightening suggestion that apes and humans were related, and that ancient hominids might still inhabit the unexplored parts of the Earth. Scientists and theologians publicly and angrily confronted each other, providing satirists with the basis for cartoons, songs, plays, stage sketches, acrobatic routines and literary fantasies about gorillas. These reflected a generalised knowledge about evolution. Cartoons, poems and jokes in humorous magazines adopted the gorilla’s voice, making the animal quasi-human and having it comment directly on the contemporary world. The almost invariably humorous tone in which gorillas were invoked in British popular culture deflected unease about the animal’s relationship to humans. Such ideas were far more threatening in the United States, where debates about the future of slavery were plunging the country into Civil War. Americans had little interest in comic depictions of simian prehistoric humans.
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Conference papers on the topic "Humorous plays"

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Adascalita-Crigan, Lucia. "The narrative and its role in the creation of Alexei Grabco." In Simpozion Național de Studii Culturale, dedicat Zilelor Europene ale Patrimoniului. Ediția III. Institute of Cultural Heritage, Republic of Moldova, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.52603/sc21.10.

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In the caricature genre of the Republic of Moldova, Alexei Grabco asserted himself as a cartoonist who, through his graphic sheets, raised to a new value the artistic and spiritual dimension of humoristic-satirical drawings. His field of creation includes scenes taken from the society of his time, as well as the results of, subtle and critical analyzes on topics related to morals, religion, culture, etc. Even if his works are part of the realism of the time, in which caricaturists such as Iurie Rumeantsev, Nicolae Macarenco, Zigfrid Polingher, Leonid Domnin are also asserted, the plastic artis
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