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Williams, Karen Elizabeth. "Humour in children's literature, 1800-1840." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2017. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/humour-in-childrens-literature-18001840(68a38fe1-1c46-423f-923a-17633825c305).html.
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By reclaiming a wide range of comic works in key literary genres, my thesis proposes that contrary to prevailing critical discourse, humour was a widespread, intrinsic and valued part of children’s literature in the period 1800-1840. Histories of children’s literature in this era are inexorably tied to an antithetical configuration of instruction versus amusement. Although in recent criticism this binary has been challenged, the critical discussion of amusing texts remains limited to a narrow canon of works operating in opposition to the moral tale and other instructive texts. My thesis widens the scope for humour in this period by interrogating juvenile works and wider print culture in four under-researched areas: the ‘papillonnade’ poetry of the first decades of the nineteenth century, the new phenomenon of the juvenile Christmas annuals, chapbooks for children, and drama as related to the child. Such an approach embraces literature that was accessible to children across the social spectrum and accordingly reveals both synergies and tensions in attitudes towards humour and the use of the comic across the class divide. Underpinning my analysis, is a rich heritage of philosophical and historical approaches to laughter that reveal a complex and dialogic relationship between comedy, the child and these wider perspectives. This critical link allows for a nuanced reading of humorous texts that cements the placement of laughter within the history of children’s literature and anticipates the later humour of better-known works by Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in mid-century.
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藍詠蘭 and Wing-lan Lam. "Humour in Lao She's prose." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B40676572.
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Fagan, Kristina Rose. "Laughing to survive, humour in contemporary Canadian Native literature." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ63653.pdf.
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Fathy, Hala M. "Jeux d'humour et mythe personnel dans le récit d'Antonine Maillet." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ52104.pdf.
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Wells, Marguerite Adele. "Humour in Japanese theatre with special reference to shingeki." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334109.
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Chen, Chi-Fang. "A study of political humour in British literature in the 1790s." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2016. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/92285/.
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British responses to the French Revolution are characterised by humorous expression in the literature of the 1790s. Yet political humour is often not readily harnessed to an immediate political agenda. ‘Political humour’ as an idea appears to be a contradiction and elicits a contradictory set of epithets, which falls into two distinct categories: ideological commitment and disinterested amusement. This thesis argues that it is this tension that contributes to the redrawing of the ambit of politics. This thesis continues the recent scholarly approach to the British response to the Revolution less as a formal ‘debate’ than as a ‘controversy’, which involves a diversity of cultural practices and experimentation of expression and social organisation. I argue that the employment of humour in the political literature of the 1790s provides extended or alternative means of political engagement. The political humour goes beyond topical political agendas and alludes to the eighteenth-century comic theory, which instructs ethical questions about social relation or ways of life. I demonstrate that the claim to autotelic innocence of humour in the comic discourse of the eighteenth century was predicated on contradictory social tendencies: laughing either reinforces individual boundary or facilitates transmissive and collective conviviality. ‘Common life’, which denotes a social relation in settlement, is the existential horizon that enacts this contradiction. With ‘common life’ in crisis or contestation in the 1790s, and with social organisation under political controversy, humour as political disclaimer is thereby reworked into a particular political language. I read the comic discourses of Burke and the popular radicals, the satire of Peter Pindar, and the comic rhetoric of the anti-Jacobin novels to explore this political language. In doing so, this thesis seeks to suggest ways of reading the literary culture of the 1790s in terms of the circumscription or expansion of the scope of political life, so as to examine how humour contributed and responded to changes in political culture.
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Mahamood, Muliyadi. "Malay editorial cartoons : the development of style and critical humour." Thesis, University of Kent, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360973.
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Dowling, Tessa. "The forms, functions and techniques of Xhosa humour." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17456.
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Bibliography: pages 259-274.In this thesis I examine the way in which Xhosa speakers create humour, what forms (e.g. satire, irony, punning, parody) they favour in both oral and textual literature, and the genres in which these forms are delivered and executed. The functions of Xhosa humour, both during and after apartheid, are examined, as is its role in challenging, contesting and reaffirming traditional notions of society and culture. The particular techniques Xhosa comedians and comic writers use in order to elicit humour are explored with specific reference to the way in which the phonological complexity of this language is exploited for humorous effect. Oral literature sources include collections of praise poems, folktales and proverbs, while anecdotal humour is drawn from recent interviews conducted with domestic workers. My analysis of humour in literary texts initially focuses on the classic works of G.B. Sinxo and S.M. Burns-Ncamashe, and then goes on to refer to contemporary works such as those of P.T. Mtuze. The study on the techniques of Xhosa humour uses as its theoretical base Walter Nash's The language of humour (1985), while that on the functions of Xhosa humour owes much to the work of sociologists such as Michael Mulkay and Chris Powell and George E.C. Paton. The study reveals the fact that Xhosa oral humour is personal and playful - at times obscene - but can also be critical. In texts it explores the comedy of characters as well as the irony of socio-political realities. In both oral and textual discourses the phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics of Xhosa are exploited to create a humour which is richly patterned and finely crafted. In South Africa humour often served to liberate people from the oppressive atmosphere of apartheid. At the same time humour has always had a stabilizing role in Xhosa cultural life, providing a means of controlling deviants and misfits.
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Hage, Wafah Mustafa El. "Humor nas anedotas do Juha." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8154/tde-21082012-101237/.
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A partir de algumas considerações sobre o humor e as narrativas jocosas na comunicação e na linguagem, esta pesquisa se concentra no estudo de um personagem folclórico misto de sábio e bobo largamente conhecido entre os falantes da língua árabe pelo nome Juha e de algumas anedotas por ele protagonizadas, pondo em foco as suas principais características e os temas relacionados: sociedade, política, miséria, entre outros; além de apontar a presença de algumas anedotas em diferentes livros, do século X ao XXI, inclusive numa coletânea editada por Mussa Kuraiem em São Paulo na década de 60 do século passado, o livro Giha, Hoja e Nasredin, que constitui o corpus desta dissertação.Starting from some considerations about humor and playful narratives in communication and language, this research focuses on the study of a mix of wise and foolish folkloric character - widely known among the speakers of the Arabic language by the name Juha - and on some anecdotes played by him, bringing into focus their main characteristics and issues: society, politics, poverty, among others, while pointing out the presence of some anecdotes in different books, from X to XXI century, including a collection edited by Mussa Kuraiem in São Paulo in the 60s of the last century. This book, Giha, Hoja and Nasredin, forms the corpus of this dissertation.
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Reinshagen-Joho, Liane. "Humour : the other intelligence : Curt Goetz and Jorge Ibargüengoitia /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6677.
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Duarte, Lia Cupertino. "Homo Risibilis : ensaio sobre o processo de construção do humor nas obras infantis de Monteiro Lobato /." Assis : [s.n.], 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/106353.
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Resumo: Partindo da constatação de que a comicidade é um dos traços caracterizadores da produção literária de Monteiro Lobato, este trabalho objetiva estudar o processo de construção do humor nas narrativas infantis produzidas pelo autor. Visto que, ao incorporar esse elemento aos seus textos, Lobato propõe uma reinvenção da linguagem literária, este estudo prioriza também a análise da "solução lingüística adequada" encontrada pelo autor para, por meio do humor, projetar no texto literário as contradições da experiência humana. Para tanto, o texto se divide em três partes: A primeira destina-se à apresentação, em ordem cronológica, de estudos produzidos por autores significativos que reconheceram no humor um dos traços característicos da produção lobatiana. Priorizando a análise desse elemento nas obras infantis de Lobato, a segunda parte do trabalho estuda o humor a partir dos seguintes aspectos: narrador, linguagem, exploração dos recursos semânticos, nonsense, paródia, comparações inusitadas, ironia, cômico de situação, inversão/subversão, grotesco e personagens. Finalmente, na terceira parte, procede-se à síntese que se divide em dois momentos: primeiro, perscruta-se a gênese da verve humorística em Monteiro Lobato, enfocando-se questões como o momento histórico tensivo que serviu como cenário para o surgimento do autor; sua estréia literária na literatura adulta com produções de configuração satírica e caricaturesca; a importância do humor nos textos infantis lobatianos como elemento de renovação formal e temática da literatura infantil brasileira; e a maneira como o humor presente em seus textos estabelece o nexo e o equilíbrio entre a vida e a arte. Com base nessas considerações, o segundo momento destina-se à verificação da tensão entre continuidade e ruptura na utilização que Lobato faz dos recursos humorísticos.
Abstract: This thesis introduces a study about the process of construction of humour in the infantile narratives produced by Monteiro Lobato. It is based on the idea that humour is one of the distinguishing marks of the author. Incorporating this element, Lobato proposes a new literary language, so this study prioritizes the analysis of the author's linguistic choices and the way how this funny language shows the contradictions of the human experience. The text has three parts: The first one presents a list, in chronological order, of important critics whose works also recognized the humour as one of the distinguishing marks of Lobato's production. In the second part, the humour is studied in the following forms: narrator, language, semantic effects, nonsense, parody, unusual comparisons, irony, comical situations, inversion / subversion, grotesque and characters. Finally, the third part has two moments: First of all, in this last part, the study discuss the origins of humour of the author: the historical moment of him; his beginning as a writer of books for an adult public, with a critical production that brings satire and caricature of people; the importance of humour in Lobato's infantile books and the value of this element in formal and thematic innovation of Brazilian literature for children; the way how the humour in his books establishes the connection and the balance between life and art. The second moment of the third part is dedicated to examination of tension between continuity and rupture in humorous means used by Lobato.
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Cairns, Anna. "Jokes for women : suffrage and the sense of humour on the stage." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bf0d5cf7-b876-4c97-acc7-da730b56daa6.
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This thesis investigates the works of the London-based suffrage theatre group, the Actresses' Franchise League (AFL). Examining the period between 1907 and 1914, it considers the immediate influences on its foundation in 1908 up to the start of the First World War, when the League changed its focus from that of women's enfranchisement to the entertainment of troops. It analyses in particular the influence of the contemporary debate concerning the sense of humour, and women’s supposed lack thereof, on the focus and style of the playwrights' work. In contextualising the AFL's negotiations with ideas of women’s sense of humour, this thesis represents a shift from the prevailing critical caution shown towards the politicisation of literary humour and laughter. I challenge distinctions between offstage political activity and laughter in the theatre, as well as definitions of radical suffrage action and the privileging of the tragic or violent within feminist discourse. The League displayed a sensitive and, sometimes, angry understanding of the impact of anti-suffrage humour. In a politically motivated move, playwrights consciously rejected the narrative of the tragic and bitter woman both to emulate and defiantly invert such jokes, in order to assert the strength of women's humour. Not without debate within the League’s own circles, the AFL and the wider movement's various politics are manifested in this construction of women’s sense of humour. These theatrical negotiations impacted on the internal strength of the suffrage community and on its political reception. In uncovering suffrage humour as a critical area in its own right, this thesis reinvigorates the categories by which this theatre has been defined and challenges the demotion of its political contribution. Bringing together little known, unpublished, and formerly lost plays into dialogue with each other, it also contributes to the ongoing recuperation of suffrage theatre, such as Cecil Armstrong’s staging of jujitsu. Setting this in conversation with more established playwrights such as George Bernard Shaw and with suffrage playwrights who have already received considerable attention, such as Cicely Hamilton, this thesis actively resists the isolation of suffrage theatre within critical discourse. In addition, its reconsideration of Shaw's relationship with the suffrage movement challenges prevalent deprecation of his playwriting contribution that invites further re-evaluation of his literary politics, while the survey and application of humour theory contributes to the evolving and exciting area of literary humour studies. Overall, through the close documentation of the AFL's alliances with offstage debate, a fuller conception of this political theatre is detailed in ways that also capture the variety of its membership, as indeed of its humour too.
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Ohali, Avigail. "Le rire des sages : l'humour dans la Mishna et la Tosefta." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA082.
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Grâce à sa vaste production littéraire, le judaïsme rabbinique, d’abord minoritaire, est devenu l’orthodoxie juive à la fin de l’antiquité. Les écrits rabbiniques ne cherchent pas à faire rire, mais nous avons constaté que les études académiques sur l’humour des rabbins de l’antiquité contribuent de manière significative à la compréhension des textes rabbiniques. Ces études ainsi que les théories modernes sur l’humour, les outils d’analyse littéraire et notre propre développement méthodologique, nous ont permis d’analyser les récits humoristiques dans les écrits tannaïtiques. Les résultats des travaux sur l’humour dans le Talmud Yerushalmi, le Talmud Babli et le midrash aggada, trouvent un écho dans les résultats de notre étude. Nous avons découvert dans la Mishna et la Tosefta une très grande variété de formes et de fonctions de l’humour. L’étude exhaustive des récits humoristiques dans ces deux corpus nous a permis de développer des nouvelles perspectives sur ces textes et leurs protagonistes, notamment concernant les polémiques internes et externes au mouvement rabbinique, les traits de caractère de certains sages et leur manière d’étudier, l’évolution de l’humour entre la Mishna, la Tosefta et les Talmudim. La grande majorité des récits que l’on trouve dans la Mishna et la Tosefta n’est pas humoristique, mais cette proportion est inversée dans certaines thématiques : dans les polémiques internes au mouvement tannaïtique nous avons noté un équilibre entre les textes humoristiques et sérieux, et de surcroît, dans les polémiques avec des groupes extérieurs au mouvement tannaïtique, les textes humoristiques sont majoritaires. L’humour des tanna’im s’avère être complexe et varié, il permet de faire remonter les origines de l’humour juif à l’époque tannaïtique, d’expliquer certains textes énigmatiques, et de mieux connaître la pensée des tanna’imThanks to their extensive literature, the rabbinic movement which was a marginal minority during the early centuries CE became, by late antiquity, the Jewish mainstream, and the rabbinic practice of Judaism became Jewish orthodoxy. Rabbinic writings do not aim to make one laugh, but we have noticed that academic research into the ancient rabbis’ humor contribute significantly to the understanding of rabbinic writings.Our tools for analyzing the humor in tannitic texts are based on previous studies, modern theories about humor, literary analysis techniques and our own personally developed methodology. The research results about humor in the Talmud Yerushalmi, the Talmud Babli and in Midrash Aggada are echoed in the results of our work.We have found in the Mishna and the Tosefta humor in various forms and functions. A comprehensive study of humorous anecdotes in these two textual corpora lends a new perspective about the rabbis and their writings: it also sheds light on the rabbis’ personalities and the house of study atmosphere, struggles within the rabbinic movement as well as with outside opponents, and the evolution of humor between the Mishna, the Tosefta and the Talmudim. The large majority of the stories found in the Mishna and the Tosefta are not humorous, but this proportion is reversed in certain themes: in polemics within the tannaitic movement we find an equal number of humorous and serious texts, and in polemics with opponents to the tannaitic movement, humorous texts are predominant. The tannaitic humor is complex and diversified, it traces the origins of modern Jewish humor not only to the Talmud but back to the tannaitic period, it helps explain some enigmatic texts, and to better know the tannaitic ideology
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Balisch, Loretta Faith. "Scrub growth, Canadian humour to 1912, an exploration." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1994. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ36198.pdf.
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Lam, Wing-lan. "Humour in Lao She's prose Lao She san wen de you mo te dian' /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B40676572.
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Duarte, Lia Cupertino [UNESP]. "Homo Risibilis: ensaio sobre o processo de construção do humor nas obras infantis de Monteiro Lobato." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/106353.
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Partindo da constatação de que a comicidade é um dos traços caracterizadores da produção literária de Monteiro Lobato, este trabalho objetiva estudar o processo de construção do humor nas narrativas infantis produzidas pelo autor. Visto que, ao incorporar esse elemento aos seus textos, Lobato propõe uma reinvenção da linguagem literária, este estudo prioriza também a análise da solução lingüística adequada encontrada pelo autor para, por meio do humor, projetar no texto literário as contradições da experiência humana. Para tanto, o texto se divide em três partes: A primeira destina-se à apresentação, em ordem cronológica, de estudos produzidos por autores significativos que reconheceram no humor um dos traços característicos da produção lobatiana. Priorizando a análise desse elemento nas obras infantis de Lobato, a segunda parte do trabalho estuda o humor a partir dos seguintes aspectos: narrador, linguagem, exploração dos recursos semânticos, nonsense, paródia, comparações inusitadas, ironia, cômico de situação, inversão/subversão, grotesco e personagens. Finalmente, na terceira parte, procede-se à síntese que se divide em dois momentos: primeiro, perscruta-se a gênese da verve humorística em Monteiro Lobato, enfocando-se questões como o momento histórico tensivo que serviu como cenário para o surgimento do autor; sua estréia literária na literatura adulta com produções de configuração satírica e caricaturesca; a importância do humor nos textos infantis lobatianos como elemento de renovação formal e temática da literatura infantil brasileira; e a maneira como o humor presente em seus textos estabelece o nexo e o equilíbrio entre a vida e a arte. Com base nessas considerações, o segundo momento destina-se à verificação da tensão entre continuidade e ruptura na utilização que Lobato faz dos recursos humorísticos.
This thesis introduces a study about the process of construction of humour in the infantile narratives produced by Monteiro Lobato. It is based on the idea that humour is one of the distinguishing marks of the author. Incorporating this element, Lobato proposes a new literary language, so this study prioritizes the analysis of the author's linguistic choices and the way how this funny language shows the contradictions of the human experience. The text has three parts: The first one presents a list, in chronological order, of important critics whose works also recognized the humour as one of the distinguishing marks of Lobato's production. In the second part, the humour is studied in the following forms: narrator, language, semantic effects, nonsense, parody, unusual comparisons, irony, comical situations, inversion / subversion, grotesque and characters. Finally, the third part has two moments: First of all, in this last part, the study discuss the origins of humour of the author: the historical moment of him; his beginning as a writer of books for an adult public, with a critical production that brings satire and caricature of people; the importance of humour in Lobato's infantile books and the value of this element in formal and thematic innovation of Brazilian literature for children; the way how the humour in his books establishes the connection and the balance between life and art. The second moment of the third part is dedicated to examination of tension between continuity and rupture in humorous means used by Lobato.
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Stratiev, Svetlin. "Philistines beware : class humour in Saki's Chronicles of Clovis, Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson, Martin Amis's Money and David Lodge's Nice work." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367357.
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Hagemann, Michael Eric. "Humour as a postcolonial strategy in Zakes Mda's novel, The heart of redness." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
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This thesis sought to demonstrate that humour and the grotesque are the primary tools by which Mda achieve his postcolonial strategies of "writing back"
, that is, of asserting an identity in the face of colonial pressures, apartheid and the growing selfishness of many in the new, post-democratic South African society.
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Jack, Rosemary. "The power and pleasure of women's laughter : an exploration of the use of humour in contemporary fiction written by women." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249815.
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Forsberg, Rose-Marie. "To Be True to Audience or Author - A Brief Literature Review and Comparison of Linguistic Humour in Two Translations of Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-17797.
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In this essay, research is conducted on two different translations of the same comic play by Dario Fo: Accidental Death of an Anarchist. (Original title in Italian: Morte accidentale di un anarchico). The first translation is by Gillian Hanna – adapted by Gavin Richards, and the other by Simon Nye. As the original text is both satirical and comedic, one of the things investigated is how these satirical and comical features of the original text are translated. Questions asked include whether these comical and satirical features are sometimes omitted or altered for any linguistic reason, or if the “jester-like” satire of the original text is preserved. In order to answer these questions, the context of the text will first be explored, as this context may present linguistic obstacles for a translator. These possible linguistic obstacles will mainly be established through Fitzpatrick & Sawczak’s Cultural Translation Model. Chapter 2 of this essay consists of an explanation of the methodology of gathering data through primary and secondary literature sources, and, eventually a comparison of the two translations to the original text. In Chapter 3, a review of the relevant theories is presented, and the theoretical literature which may offer explanations about the linguistic properties of humour and the “comedic process”. Further, Dario Fo’s particular style of political satire is presented in Chapter 4, together with an investigation of the particular use of satire in theatre performances, and Commedia dell’arte - as background for his particular comedic style. In Chapter 5, linguistic obstacles for translating humour and satire for stage are investigated. In addition, various adaptation strategies of translation are briefly displayed, as well as a short account for Accidental Death of an Anarchist in adaptation. Finally, in Chapter 6, a comparison between some short segments of the two translations and the original text is conducted, in order to establish whether some satirical and comical features have been preserved or altered in the translations. The research will show that there exists a lack of linguistic humour theories which goes beyond linguistic puns. At the same time, various techniques are available to translate and adapt the humorous source text into the target language and culture. Even if there is no linguistic reason for altering the implications and symbolic approach of the original text, the translator may adapt the stage performance into the cultural realm of the native public. Thus, the translator can either exclude the humorous parts in the original text, or adapt the satire into domestically accepted jokes, or add new humorous events into the play. However, due to linguistic obstacles in translating humour, it is not always a matter of choice for the translator to either be true to audience or author.
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Mitchell, Alexandre G. "Comic pictures in Greek vase painting : humour in the polis and the Dionysian world in the sixth and fifth centuries B.C." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248968.
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Bilange, Elizabeth Maria Azevedo. "O áspero humor de Lobo Antunes." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8150/tde-13022008-104503/.
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Entender a multiplicação das faces e funções do humor na prosa de Antônio Lobo Antunes é o objetivo desta tese. Frente à vasta obra, o foco da análise foi dirigido para a Trilogia sobre o poder. Agrupados pela temática e sem prejuízo da feição individual de cada romance, o trio, O Manual dos Inquisidores, O Esplendor de Portugal e Exortação aos Crocodilos, tece painel sobre a violência e o medo que se instauraram em Portugal e suas colônias de África no período pré e pós- Revolução dos Cravos com enredos aparentemente incompatíveis com o processo da comicidade, do humor e do riso. Sem explicitar apenas os recursos técnicos e o fazer artesanal do texto antuneano, estudou-se a tessitura estilística da comicidade para entender os mecanismos e elementos que imprimem representatividade cômica ao texto de Lobo Antunes. Mesmo que Bergson, Propp, Bakhtin, Kyser tenham contribuído com a base teórica de produção do cômico, são as teorias de Freud sobre humor e chiste que melhor abarcam a prosa de Antunes. Essas teorias ajudaram a mostrar que, em Lobo Antunes, os processos que resultam em humor, muita vez, possuem características antagônicas aos \"modelos\" estabelecidos. Para demonstrar as dimensões possíveis do jogo textual e do jogo irônico nos romances da Trilogia, lançou-se mão das teorias, entre outros, de São Tomás de Aquino, Huizinga, Callois, Piaget e Iser. Evidenciou-se, também, que o humor da Trilogia é áspero porque corrói, desbasta e denuncia os abusos do poder, das instituições e os absurdos do mundo moderno.The aim of this thesis understands the multiplication of the faces and the humour functions in Lobo Antunes\' prose. Facing his great literary work, the analysis focus was pointed towards the Trilogy about power. Gathered by the thematic and without prejudice the individual feature of each romance, a set of three, \"O Manual dos Inquisidores, O Esplendor de Portugal and Exortação aos Crocodilos\", comments about the violence and the fear that was established in Portugal and its African colonies in the Pre and Post Cravos Revolution period with plots apparently incompatible to the comicality, humour and laugh process. Not only making explicit the technical resources and Antunes\' handicraft text, but it was also studied the comicality stylistic contexture to understand the mechanisms and elements that transcribe comic representativity to Lobo Antunes\' text. Bergson, Propp, Bakhtin, Kyser contributed to the theoretical basis of the comic production, but Freud´s theories about humour and pleasantry comprise better Antonios\' prose. These theories helped to show that, in Lobo Antunes, the processes that result in humour may have antagonistic characteristics to the \"established models\". To demonstrate the possible dimensions of the textual and ironic games in the Trilogy novels, it was made use of Callois and Iser from among. It also became evident that Trilogy humour is austere because destroys slowly, devastates and informs against the abuse of power, the institutions and the nonsense modern world.
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Beech, Cynthia F. "Invitation to intercultural dialogue, exploring the humour of Thomas King and Lee Maracle." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0020/MQ49311.pdf.
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Faggionato, Monica. "La rappresentazione umoristica della società italiana nella narrativa di Stefano Benni." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AZUR2035/document.
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L’étude des romans et des recueils de récits publiés par Stefano Benni entre 1976 et 2009 a pour but d’illustrer la poétique de cet écrivain à travers l’analyse des éléments thématiques, stylistiques et philosophiques qui la composent. Dans la première partie les thèmes déclinent la valeur de la narration orale et des lieux de socialisation, l’exploration de mondes imaginaires et de leur richesses, la solitude de l’individu, l’enfance avec sa capacité d’imagination et la vieillesse avec sa capacité de mémoire. Le repérage thématique effectué dans la première partie a montré que la production de Benni n’est conçue qu’à l’intérieur du contexte social contemporain, qui est à l’origine d’un travail autour de la parole et de sa signification. Cette partie de la recherche a été indispensable pour identifier les étapes motivationnelles qui déclenchent chez Benni la naissance du texte. L’identification du pouvoir cognitif que Benni reconnaît à la littérature a conduit à étudier, dans la troisième partie, l’arrière-plan philosophique dont s’inspirent la poétique et la vision du monde de Benni. Le processus de la création littéraire chez Benni part de l’observation du réel pour ensuite migrer vers une transfiguration humoristique en laquelle l’écrivain transpose aussi la tension qui s’engendre entre le sentiment individuel conditionné par les faits et la description représentative des faits mêmes. L’écrivain humoriste active ainsi des mécanismes de prise de conscience, de fraternité dans l’angoisse, de confiance dans le changementThis study of the narrative works by Stefano Benni published between 1976 and 2009 aims to illustrate his poetic style through the analysis of its thematic, stylistic and philosophic elements. Themes have been identified to reflect Benni’s values: the importance of oral communication and socialization, the power of imagination to explore new worlds and new solutions, the importance of human diversity in the contemporary society, childhood with its visionary capacity and old age with its memory. Benni’s body of work exists within a contemporary social context. To the reader this is evident on every page due to his careful choice of words and rhythm. All forms of his humor are examined in order to recognize it as the most representative language for the contemporary complexity. This part of the research was essential to identify the motivation behind Benni’s writings. The cognitive power associated with his literature led us to study Benni’s philosophic background and his vision of the world in the third section. The literary process enables the writer to juxtapose the tensions that exist between individual feelings and emotions with the events surrounding a given situation. In this way humor and imagination stimulate empathy, awareness and a faith in change
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Carvalho, Elanir França. "Os sentidos do cômico - riso e representação social em Sagarana." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8149/tde-20082012-124512/.
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A constituição humorística de Sagarana (1946) fornece a base desta tese de doutoramento, em Literatura Brasileira. Assim, tem-se como corpus de análise contos desta obra do escritor João Guimarães Rosa (1908 1967), e, embora privilegiando-a como um todo, no conjunto de suas nove narrativas, foram selecionadas três delas para análise e composição dos capítulos deste estudo, a saber: O burrinho pedrês, Traços biográficos de Lalino Salãthiel ou A volta do marido pródigo e Corpo fechado. A abordagem estabelece a intersecção de duas vertentes de constituição e construção da obra: uma, no plano formal, corresponde aos recursos expressivos de comicidade, realizados através de procedimentos de humor, ironia, paródia, sátira, e outros. Para tanto, a fundamentação teórica centra-se, basicamente, nas reflexões de autores como Bergson, Propp, Pirandello, Freud. A outra, no plano temático, orienta-se pela representação da sociedade plasmada nas narrativas e a correspondência desta representação com a realidade nacional, como relações de poder, de violência, de submissão, instituições de Estado, e outros. Críticos do autor que realizaram abordagem sob tal enfoque foram selecionados como referência. A investigação revelou, finalmente, que nesta obra seminal do autor mineiro já se configuravam as linhas mestras de um projeto literário e uma visão de mundo, perpassados pelo humor. E mais, sob a leveza do véu humorístico, o autor realiza profunda reflexão acerca da sociedade (brasileira), do mundo e do homem (humano).Humour in Sagarana (1946) is the basis of this doctoral thesis in Brazilian Literature. The corpus consists of the short stories of João Guimarães Rosa (1908 - 1967), and though the thesis refers to his nine short stories, three of them were selected for analysis and make up the chapters of this study, namely: O burrinho pedrês [The dappled donkey\"], Traços biográficos de Lalino Salãthiel ou A volta do marido pródigo [\"Biographical traces of Latino Salathiel or the return of the prodigal husband,\"], and Corpo fechado [Invulnerable]. The approach examines the intersection of two elements of the creation and construction of Rosas stories: on the formal level, the comedy is produced by humour, irony, parody, and satire. Here, the theories used are those of Bergson, Propp, Pirandello, and Freud. On the thematic level, Rosas subjects reflect Brazilian reality: power relations, violence, submission, and state institutions. Critics of Rosa who have approached his work using this focus are referred to. The study concludes that these seminal works of Rosa, in which humour plays a large part, already shaped the outlines of Rosas literary project and world view. Moreover, Rosas light humour enables him to reflect on Brazilian society, the world, and mankind.
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Huovinen, Miriam. "Ironi – ett vapen att framföra kritik : Allvarsam kritik levereras med humor i Miika Nousiainens roman Hallonbåtsflyktingen." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för slaviska och baltiska språk, finska, nederländska och tyska, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-152435.
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I denna uppsats har jag undersökt vad ironi är och hur den uppstår i Hallonbåtsflyktingen, en roman utgiven på finska av Miika Nousiainen (2007) och översatt till svenska av Mårten Westö (2009). Jag har utgått från Linda Hutcheons och Katharina Barbes teorier om ironi i min analys. Jag har även undersökt varför mottagandet av boken varit skiftande mellan Finland och Sverige. Ironins primära syfte är att framföra kritik och dess sekundära syfte är att roa. Kritiken i Hallonbåtsflyktingen framförs genom smicker på ett passivt aggressivt sätt. Det finska jämförs med det svenska genom stereotypen som kanal. Ironi uppstår genom inkongruens, när något inte stämmer i sammanhanget. Dessutom använder författaren upprepningar, förstoringar och förminskningar som metoder för att skapa ironi. Författaren har en intention, eller ett syfte med att skriva boken, men tolkningen av ironi sker i det osagda hos läsaren. Faktorer som läsarens bakgrundserfarenhet, värderingar och normer påverkar tolkningen. Eftersom läsaren i Finland har en annan historisk och kulturell bakgrund jämfört med läsaren i Sverige har mottagandet av boken varierat. En del läsare, i båda länderna, finner humorn i den medan andra inte uppskattar den. Maktaspekten går som en röd tråd genom boken och ironi i sig är ett vapen i kampen mot obalanser i maktförhållanden. Den har förmågan att förändra. Hallonbåtsflyktingen belyser maktobalanser inom bland annat politik och religion, kolonialism och postkolonialism, ekonomi samt genusfrågan.In my study I have examined what irony consists of and how it arises in Hallonbåtsflyktingen, a novel written in Finnish by Miika Nousiainen (2007) and translated into Swedish by Mårten Westö (2009). As a base for my analysis I have used Linda Hutcheon’s and Katharina Barbe’s theories on irony. In addition, I have examined why the reception of the book differed between Finland and Sweden. The prime purpose of irony is to deliver criticism and its secondary purpose is to entertain. Criticism in Hallonbåtsflyktingen is delivered by flattery in a passive aggressive way. The Swedish society is compared to the Finnish society through stereotypes. Irony happens when something does not fit in the context. It is considered incongruent. Methods like repetition, hyperboles and meiosis are used to create irony. The author does have an intention with the book, a reason to write. However, irony happens when the reader interprets text in the unsaid. The reader’s background and values influence the interpretation. Since the Finnish reader has a different history and background compared to the Swedish reader the book’s reception has varied, to a large extent, between the countries. Some readers find it humorous whilst others do not appreciate the humour. Power issues are present throughout the book and irony in itself is a weapon in the fight against the issues. Irony has the ability to change power imbalances. In Hallonbåtsflyktingen power imbalances are implicitly criticised through irony in the areas of politics, religion, colonialism, postcolonialism, economics and gender imbalances.
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Betts, Lindsey N. "The Performance of Melancholy: Understanding the Humours through Burton, Jonson, and Shakespeare." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1368.
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This thesis aims to explore the relationships between dramatic texts and the Elizabethan topic of the humours. It covers Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Jonson's plays Every Man Out of His Humour and Every Man in His Humour, and Shakespeare's plays Hamlet and As You Like It. Each of these works provides a glimpse into society and its opinions specifically on melancholy, from its most basic and complex definitions to how it is perceived and addressed.
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Firmino, Marylin Lima Guimarães 1983. "De Deaf Sentence a Surdo Mundo : diálogos entre teorias e práticas da tradução." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269518.
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Orientador: Maria Viviane do Amaral VerasDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: David Lodge aborda a temática da surdez de forma bastante inusitada no romance Deaf Sentence (2008). O protagonista é Desmond Bates, um professor de Linguística Aplicada aposentado, que está ficando surdo e passa por mal-entendidos decorrentes de suas dificuldades em distinguir sons de palavras similares, o que confere ao romance tons humorísticos e irônicos. Por meio da escrita de um diário, o personagem relata sua rotina, abalada pela jovem Alex, e introduz o leitor a uma visão especializada sobre questões de linguagem e literatura, além de expressar com lucidez suas impressões sobre a surdez, dando voz, de forma singular, a essa questão, ainda invisível para muitas pessoas. Os desafios de tradução se apresentam de pronto pelo título (um trocadilho entre deaf e death e polissemia da palavra sentence) e perpassam a narrativa, revelando uma forte ligação entre alguns aspectos paratextuais do romance e a história em si. Deaf Sentence coloca o tradutor diante de trocadilhos e articulações intertextuais que tornam o romance aparentemente intraduzível, ao mesmo tempo, convoca a transposição de fronteiras de forma obrigatória, como exige a tradução do humor. Nesse sentido, as soluções adequadas para os diversos desafios de tradução do romance estão intimamente ligadas às estratégias e recursos utilizados pelo tradutor. A partir do conceito de paratexto cunhado por Genette (2009), são apresentadas análises do título, dedicatória, epígrafe e agradecimentos, presentes no texto original, com o objetivo de expor seus possíveis efeitos sobre leitores e tradutores e, consequentemente, o recente conceito de paratradução (Yuste Frías, 2010) é abordado com o intuito de endossar a importância da tradução de paratextos para a recepção de obras literárias. As análises de capas de algumas traduções permitem o estabelecimento de relações entre imagens do original e de diferentes versões do romance, além de revelarem (ou não) relações com o seu conteúdo. A tradução brasileira Surdo Mundo, de Guilherme da Silva Braga (2010), foco das análises, divide o palco com as traduções A vida em surdina, de Tânia Ganho (Portugal, 2011), La vida en sordina, de Jaime Zulaika (Espanha, 2010), e La vie en sourdine, de Maurice e Yvonne Couturier (França, 2008). É possível estabelecer diálogos entre essas traduções, e a utilização ou não de notas mostrou-se um elemento evidente da singularidade das decisões tomadas pelos tradutores diante dos desafios. A partir das discussões em torno da (in) traduzibilidade de textos humorísticos feitas por Brezolin (1997), Schmitz (1996, 1998) e Possenti (1991), abordam-se possibilidades de tradução criativa desses gêneros discursivos. Levando-se em conta as especificidades de Deaf Sentence, é proposto um diálogo entre algumas vertentes teóricas aplicáveis à tradução do humor: Rosas (2002), Campos (1970) e Reiss e Vermeer (1996). O cotejo entre trechos selecionados de Deaf Sentence e de Surdo Mundo revela que a tradução criativa, processo de negociação amplo entre texto original e tradutor, parece justificar tranquilamente a ausência de notas, enquanto a sua presença nas demais traduções analisadas, em alguns casos, parece advir da aceitação da intraduzibilidade de determinados desafios
Abstract: David Lodge approaches the topic of deafness in a very unusual manner in the novel Deaf Sentence (2008). The protagonist is Desmond Bates, a retired professor of Applied Linguistics who is going deaf and is subject to some misunderstandings arising from his difficulties in distinguishing sounds of similar words, granting the novel ironic and humoristic riffs. By writing a journal, the character reports his routine, shaken by Alex, a young woman, introducing the reader to a specialized view on issues of language and literature, as well as lucidly expressing his impressions regarding deafness, giving voice, in a singular manner, to this issue, still invisible to many. The challenges of translation are immediately presented in the title (a pun regarding deaf and death and the polysemy of the word sentence), and continue throughout the narrative, revealing a strong connection between some paratextual aspects of the novel and the story itself. Deaf Sentence presents the translator with puns and intertextual articulations, which make the novel seemingly untranslatable, while at the same time mandatorily summoning the transposition of frontiers, as is required in the translation of humour. To this end, the adequate solutions for the several challenges in translating the novel are intimately linked to the strategies and resources used by the translator. Based on the paratext concept coined by Genette (2009), this thesis analyses the title, dedication, epigraph, and acknowledgements in the original. The objective is to show their possible effects on readers and translators, and consequently the recent concept of paratranslation (Yuste Frías, 2010) is used in order to stress how important the translation of paratexts is for the reception of literary works. This thesis also analyses the book covers chosen for different translations, establishing relations between images of the original and the different versions of the novel, besides revealing (or not) relations with its content. The Brazilian translation, entitled Surdo Mundo, by Guilherme da Silva Braga (2010), is the main focus of the analysis, sharing the stage with the translations A vida em surdina, by Tânia Ganho (Portugal, 2011), La vida en sordina, by Jaime Zulaika (Spain, 2010), and La vie en sourdine, by Maurice e Yvonne Couturier (France, 2008). It is possible to establish dialogic relationships among these translations, and, the choice of whether or not to use notes proved to be a clear element of how singular the decisions made by the translators were before the challenges. Based on the discussions around the (un)translatability of humoristic texts made by Brezolin (1997), Schmitz (1996, 1998) and Possenti (1991), this thesis deals with the possibilities of creative translation of these discursive genres. Taking into account the specific aspects of Deaf Sentence, a dialogue is proposed between some theoretical perspectives applicable to the translation of humour: Rosas (2002), Campos (1970) and Reiss and Vermeer (1996). The comparison between selected passages of Deaf Sentence and Surdo Mundo reveals that the creative translation - the ample negotiation process between the original text and the translator - seems to easily justify the absence of notes, while their presence in the other translations analyzed, in some cases, seems to be generated by the acceptance that certain challenges were untranslatable
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Teoria, Pratica e Ensino da Tradução
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Pirolla, Patricia Rocha. "Humor em poemas : um estudo do cômico em Carlos Drummond de Andrade /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/102369.
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Resumo: O objetivo desta tese de doutorado é a análise das categorias do cômico na obra do poeta mineiro Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Como sua produção é acima de tudo cerebral e não busca sentimentalismos ou provocar a emoção através das palavras, o poeta trata do cômico de uma maneira muito particular. Usando um trabalho minucioso com as palavras que se deixa transparecer nos versos cuidadosamente escritos, Drummond consegue criar um tipo específico de cômico, seja através da linguagem coloquial, prosaica, seja através de termos e construções rebuscadas. A primeira está presente na maioria de seus poemas, e só deixa espaço para o rebuscamento em algumas obras pontuais, consideradas, por alguns críticos, como um retrocesso neoclássico. Embora o estudo da teoria do cômico em Drummond tenha recebido a atenção da maioria dos críticos, sua análise, muitas vezes, não vai além de alguns parágrafos, capítulos ou estudos pontuais de alguns poemas, ou seja, partes que integram um estudo maior, voltado a outra temática. Este estudo, ao debruçar-se, especificamente sobre a análise do cômico em suas origens, seus efeitos e suas construções na obra poética do autor, viu a necessidade de definir suas categorias, como a ironia e o humor, bem como suas formas de expressão, como a sátira, o chiste e a paródia a fim de que, não tendo a pretensão de trazer-lhes uma conceituação definitiva, a análise dos poemas seja realizada de modo satisfatório, à luz delas, ampliando os estudos acerca da lírica reflexiva do poeta e das formas de comicidade por ele empregadas
Abstract: The objective of this thesis is the analysis of the categories of comedy in the work of the poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade. As his production is above all brain and do not look for sentimentality or search emotion through words, the poet comes to the comic in a very particular way. Using a detailed work with words that make it clear in verses carefully written, Drummond manages to create a specific type of comic, whether through colloquial language, prose, either through the terms and ornate buildings. That is present in most of his poems, and only leaves room for the occasional pretensions in some works, considered by some critics as a throwback neoclassical. Although the study of the theory of comedy in Drummond has received the attention of most critics, their analysis often does not go beyond a few paragraphs, chapters or specific studies of some poems, or parts of a larger study, focused the other subject. This study, as look into, specifically, on the analysis of the comic in its origins, its effects and its buildings in the poetic works of the author, saw the need to define their categories, as irony and humor, and its forms of expression, as satire, the wit and parody in order that, having no claim to bring a definitive conceptualization, the analysis of the poems be performed satisfactorily in the light of them, extending the studies of the poet's reflective lyric and about the ways of humor employed by him
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Pirolla, Patrícia Rocha [UNESP]. "Humor em poemas: um estudo do cômico em Carlos Drummond de Andrade." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/102369.
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O objetivo desta tese de doutorado é a análise das categorias do cômico na obra do poeta mineiro Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Como sua produção é acima de tudo cerebral e não busca sentimentalismos ou provocar a emoção através das palavras, o poeta trata do cômico de uma maneira muito particular. Usando um trabalho minucioso com as palavras que se deixa transparecer nos versos cuidadosamente escritos, Drummond consegue criar um tipo específico de cômico, seja através da linguagem coloquial, prosaica, seja através de termos e construções rebuscadas. A primeira está presente na maioria de seus poemas, e só deixa espaço para o rebuscamento em algumas obras pontuais, consideradas, por alguns críticos, como um retrocesso neoclássico. Embora o estudo da teoria do cômico em Drummond tenha recebido a atenção da maioria dos críticos, sua análise, muitas vezes, não vai além de alguns parágrafos, capítulos ou estudos pontuais de alguns poemas, ou seja, partes que integram um estudo maior, voltado a outra temática. Este estudo, ao debruçar-se, especificamente sobre a análise do cômico em suas origens, seus efeitos e suas construções na obra poética do autor, viu a necessidade de definir suas categorias, como a ironia e o humor, bem como suas formas de expressão, como a sátira, o chiste e a paródia a fim de que, não tendo a pretensão de trazer-lhes uma conceituação definitiva, a análise dos poemas seja realizada de modo satisfatório, à luz delas, ampliando os estudos acerca da lírica reflexiva do poeta e das formas de comicidade por ele empregadas
The objective of this thesis is the analysis of the categories of comedy in the work of the poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade. As his production is above all brain and do not look for sentimentality or search emotion through words, the poet comes to the comic in a very particular way. Using a detailed work with words that make it clear in verses carefully written, Drummond manages to create a specific type of comic, whether through colloquial language, prose, either through the terms and ornate buildings. That is present in most of his poems, and only leaves room for the occasional pretensions in some works, considered by some critics as a throwback neoclassical. Although the study of the theory of comedy in Drummond has received the attention of most critics, their analysis often does not go beyond a few paragraphs, chapters or specific studies of some poems, or parts of a larger study, focused the other subject. This study, as look into, specifically, on the analysis of the comic in its origins, its effects and its buildings in the poetic works of the author, saw the need to define their categories, as irony and humor, and its forms of expression, as satire, the wit and parody in order that, having no claim to bring a definitive conceptualization, the analysis of the poems be performed satisfactorily in the light of them, extending the studies of the poet’s reflective lyric and about the ways of humor employed by him
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Lockyer, Sharon. "An eye to offensiveness : the discourse of offence and censure in Private Eye." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2001. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/6785.
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This thesis is an empirical examination of the articulation of comic offence and the practices of comic censure as conducted in media discourse. Making complaints about comic discourse is a risky endeavour. The joker can retort that it was `just a joke' or can charge the complainer with lacking a sense of humour and libels can fail and be very costly. The main focus is on the discursive strategies and practices used when claiming that comedy has caused offence. This is an under-researched area in humour studies. The ambivalence involved in negotiations between ethical and comic discourse is a central tenet of the thesis. Two main avenuesf or expressing comic offence are used in the thesis: letters of complaint written to the editor of comic discourse and charges of offensive comedy made through the law of defamation. The thesis adopts an eclectic approach to data collection and analysis. The research draws on different data sources: letters pages and readers' letters printed in the satirical magazine Private Eye, newspaper articles reporting on libel cases brought against Private Eye and interviews with editors, journalists, cartoonists and libel lawyers working for Private Eye. Content analytic techniques are used when analysing the readers' letters to provide a clear overview of the general pattern of complaint involved and the common consequences of such complaint. Composition analysis is used to assess how the editor of Private Eye constructs the letters page. Here I explore the strategies employed by the editor when defendingc criticisms that offence has been causeda nd assessh ow the editor discursively treats the offended reader. To examine in closer detail the characteristic ways in which reader's structure their expression of grievance, I then employ more qualitative modes of analysis: linguistic discourse analysis and symbolic cultural analysis. Attention then shifts to the second main avenue for expressing comic offence: the law of defamation. I conduct a quantitative content analysis of Private Eye's libel litigation history to provide an overview of the types of individual who utilise the law of defamation and the bases on which reputations are damaged. Textual analysis is used to assessh ow newspapersre port libel casesb rought against Private Eye in order to explore the press' role in the debate of comic offence and comic censure. In my conclusion I discuss what the thesis suggests about the ethical considerations of humour and comedy and I highlight the importance of the thesis for humour studies. The thesis finishes with some recommendations for future research.
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Estrada, Luttikhuizen David. "L'expressió escrita i els continguts de l'humor a la literatura infantil i juvenil catalana de 1904 a 2004: educació en els valors." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7669.
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L'humor permet entendre i organitzar el món. És un aspecte en l'educació de la identitat cultural que comença tan aviat com la canalla pot seguir una narració oral, i que s'intensifica a mesura que la lectura esdevé un hàbit. L'humor escrit ofereix recursos expressius i camps semàntics determinats per la llengua, i continguts i referents culturals determinats pels valors socials; el seu codi inclou convencions amb el lector sobre la presentació i l'argument. Com a estratègia d'adaptació, l'humor es va modificant segons les circumstàncies socials al llarg del temps. El present treball es centra en la literatura per a infants i joves escrita en català com a idioma original i editada entre el 1904 i el 2004.Humour helps us to understand and organise the world. It is an aspect in the formation of cultural identities which develops as soon as children can follow an oral narrative, and is further intensified as reading becomes a habit. Written humour displays expressive resources and semantic fields determined by the language, and contents and referents determined by social values; its code includes conventions with the reader regarding form and plot. Being a social strategy, humour evolves through time depending on the circumstances. This research focuses on literature for children and adolescents originally written in the Catalan language and published between 1904 and 2004.
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Lindqwister, Robin. "I fablernas nät : En översättningsvetenskaplig uppsats om att undertexta nederländsk satir till svenska." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Tolk- och översättarinstitutet, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-194786.
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Denna kandidatuppsats består av en längre översättning i form av en undertextning från nederländska till svenska, samt en kommentar till översättningen. Källtexten utgörs av inslaget De online fabeltjesfuik (ordagrant ’fabelryssjan’) ur det nederländska satiriska nyhetsprogrammet Zondag met Lubach. I kommentarsdelen beskrivs den teoretiska bakgrunden bakom den översättningsprincip och rangordning av översättningsprioriteringar som styrt undertextningsarbetet. Därefter behandlas ett urval av översättningsproblem samt strategierna för att lösa dem, med ett särskilt fokus på kulturella referenser och humor. Det största problemet utgörs dock i slutändan av översättningsformens egna begränsningar när det kommer till tid och utrymme, vilka styr alla andra översättningsval.This bachelor’s essay consists of a longer translation in the form of Dutch-to-Swedish subtitles, including a section commenting on the translation. The source text is made up of the segment De online fabeltjesfuik (literally ‘the fable fyke’) from the Dutch satirical news show Zondag met Lubach. The comment section describes the theoretical background behind the translation principle and the translation priorities which have guided the subtitling. Then a sample of translation problems along with the strategies used to solve them are presented, focusing on cultural references and humour. The largest issue remains the inherent limitations of subtitling as pertains to time and space, which influence all other translation choices made.
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Hilding, Jana. "Lingvistisk analys av den ryska politiska anekdoten under 2000-talet: genreförändring?" Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Slaviska språk, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-179781.
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An analysis was made of the personal and non-personal post-Soviet political anecdotes. It is argued that post-Soviet political anecdotes have been created during 2000–2019. The starting point is that the Russian word анекдот carries particular, cultural information and does not have a systematic equivalent in Swedish ot English, i.e. it can not be directly translated to English as anecdote or joke or to Swedish as anekdot, skämt, or vits. This was demonstrated in a brief comparison with Swedish jokes and anecdotes. Using three text corpora with a total of 3,170 political anecdotes, I examined: (a) how events and politicians are described and how this can be decoded (corpus 1 and 3); (b) what topics are most common (corpus 2 and 3). A more in-depth analysis of cultural references, pragmatics, semantics and deixis was made of 33 selected anecdotes, which were considered to be representative for the genre. The analysis showed that the thematics tend to be recurring, that few new anecdotes are added, old anecdotes are repeated and that the genre has undergone considerable changes during the past two decades. Such a change is the abscense of post-Soviet anecdotes with significant critique against politicians or sensitive political topics, as compared to earlier anecdotes, and a simplification of the genre. This development is a possible result of that anecdotes are no longer told as often as during previous decades, as well as the new Russian law § 282 implemented as of spring 2019, which affects the creation and distribution of anecdotes. By extrapolation, the observed changes could lead to parts of the most common anecdotes becoming tematic jokes in the future.
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Ward, Matthew. "The sound of laughter in Romantic poetry." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6814.
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This thesis offers the first critical examination of the sound of laughter in Romantic poetry. Part one locates laughter in the history of ideas of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and explores the interplay between laughter and key intellectual, aesthetic, ethical, and social issues in the Romantic period. I chart a development in thinking about laughter from its primary association with ridicule and the passions up to the early decades of the eighteenth century, to its emerging symbiosis with politeness and aesthetic judgement, before a reassertion of laughter's signification of passion and naturalness by the end of the eighteenth century. Laughter provides an innovative means of mapping cultural markers, and I argue that it highlights shifts in standards and questions of taste. Informed by this analysis, part two offers a series of historically aware close readings of Romantic poetry that identify both an indebtedness to, and refutation of, earlier and contemporaneous ideas about laughter. Rather than having humour or comedy as its central concerns, this thesis identifies the pervasive and capricious influence of the sound of the laugh in the writing of Robert Burns, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and John Keats. I detect the heterogeneous representations of laughter in their work that runs across a diverse range of genres, poetic forms, themes, and contexts. As such, I argue against the serious versus the humorous binary which prevails in literary criticism of Romanticism, and suggest that laughter articulates the interplay between the elegiac and the comic, the sublime and the ridiculous, the solitary and the communal. Moreover, I detect a double-naturedness to the sound of laughter in Romantic poetry that registers the subject's capacity to signify both consensus and dispute. This inherent polarity creates a tension in the poems as laughter ironically challenges what it also affirms. Never singularly fixed, the sound of laughter reveals the protean nature of Romantic verse.
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Jendari, Aziz. "Ironie et poésie. Théorie et pratique de l'écriture oblique dans l'oeuvre de Francis Ponge." Phd thesis, Ecole normale supérieure de lyon - ENS LYON, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00701171.
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Cette étude porte sur le rôle important dévolu à l'écriture oblique dans l'œuvre de Francis Ponge, à travers les notions d'ironie et d'humour. En s'appuyant à la fois sur les nombreuses déclarations de l'auteur concernant l'importance de ces notions dans son œuvre et sur les recherches les plus actuelles qui tentent de cerner ces catégories complexes et embarrassantes, on définit l'ironie non comme simple figure d'inversion mais comme fait rhétorique englobant une multitude de pratiques discursives. Plus précisément, on l'envisage comme un phénomène polyphonique et intertextuel dont la spécificité réside d'une part dans sa dimension critique et, d'autre part, dans son ambiguïté énonciative. L'humour est quant à lui envisagé comme jeu contestataire inscrit dans l'ordre de la langue. Dès lors, ironie et humour peuvent être considérés comme deux formes, différentes et complémentaires, de métadiscours critique qui couvrent tout le champ de la poétique pongienne : rhétorique, esthétique et éthique. La première partie s'attache à dégager les conditions et la constitution d'une posture ironique à partir des textes antérieurs à la poétique du parti pris, souvent négligés par la critique mais qui se révèlent essentiels en ce qu'ils problématisent les enjeux et les intuitions de la poétique pongienne. La deuxième partie est consacrée aux stratégies discursives à l'œuvre dans les textes, envisagées aussi bien en termes de figures et procédés que comme dispositifs textuels d'ensemble, lesquels ouvrent la voie vers une esthétique de l'ironie. Enfin, la troisième partie est consacrée au projet politique et moral qui sous-tend l'œuvre de Ponge et tente de cerner l'ironie et l'humour comme manifestations de la position éthique de l'auteur.
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Dreyer, Nicolas D. "'Post-Soviet neo-modernism' : an approach to 'postmodernism' and humour in the post-Soviet Russian fiction of Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Tuchkov and Aleksandr Khurgin." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1917.
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The present work analyses the fiction of the post-Soviet Russian writers, Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Tuchkov and Aleksandr Khurgin against the background of the notion of post-Soviet Russian postmodernism. In doing so, it investigates the usefulness and accuracy of this very notion, proposing that of ‘post-Soviet neo-modernism’ instead. Common critical approaches to post-Soviet Russian literature as being postmodern are questioned through an examination of the concept of postmodernism in its interrelated historical, social, and philosophical dimensions, and of its utility and adequacy in the Russian cultural context. In addition, it is proposed that the humorous and grotesque nature of certain post-Soviet works can be viewed as a creatively critical engagement with both the past, i.e. Soviet ideology, and the present, the socially tumultuous post-Soviet years. Russian modernism, while sharing typologically and literary-historically a number of key characteristics with Western modernism, was particularly motivated by a turning to the cultural repository of Russia’s past, and a metaphysical yearning for universal meaning transcending the perceived fragmentation of the tangible modern world. Continuing the older Russian tradition of resisting rationalism, and impressed by the sense of realist aesthetics failing the writer in the task of representing a world that eluded rational comprehension, modernists tended to subordinate artistic concerns to their esoteric convictions. Without appreciation of this spiritual dimension, semantic intention in Russian modernist fiction may escape a reader used to the conventions of realist fiction. It is suggested that contemporary Russian fiction as embodied in certain works by Sorokin, Tuchkov and Khurgin, while stylistically exhibiting a number of features commonly regarded as postmodern, such as parody, pastiche, playfulness, carnivalisation, the grotesque, intertextuality and self-consciousness, seems to resume modernism’s tendency to seek meaning and value for human existence in the transcendent realm, as well as in the cultural, in particular literary, treasures of the past. The closeness of such segments of post-Soviet fiction and modernism in this regard is, it is argued, ultimately contrary to the spirit of postmodernism and its relativistic and particularistic worldview. Hence the suggested conceptualisation of post-Soviet Russian fiction as ‘neo-modernist’.
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Matos, Mayara Neres. "Humor e ironia em João Melo." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2014. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=7074.
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Esta dissertação pretende desenvolver um estudo sobre o humor nos contos do escritor angolano João Melo, a partir dos livros Filhos da Pátria (2001), O dia em que o Pato Donaldo comeu pela primeira vez a Margarida (2006) e O homem que não tira o palito da boca (2009). Fundamentada nas perspectivas freudiana e lacaniana a respeito dos paradoxos do humor, pretende-se, ainda, apontar o aspecto tragicômico de seus textos e o modo como a ironia, estratégia discursiva contundente em seus contos, mostra-se como a principal estratégia discursiva do humor. Intenta-se, ainda, apontar a relação entre a literatura de João Melo e o processo criativo da sublimação, identificando-a, assim, como obra de arte, por excelência. Pelo discurso poético de João Melo, revive-se a história angolana, produzindo novas metáforas, incluindo novos significados e abrindo, assim, novos caminhos. A partir da máxima Seria trágico, se não fosse cômico, a Angola de João Melo seria traumática, se não fosse desconstruída por sua literaturaThis thesis intends to develop a study on the humor in João Melos tales, an Angolan Writer. His books Filhos da Pátria (2001), O dia em que o Pato Donaldo comeu pela primeira vez a Margarida (2006) and O homem que não tira o palito da boca (2009), based on the Freudian and Lacanian perspectives. Concerning the human paradox, this study intends to bring out the tragicomic aspects of its texts and the ironic strategy used in the authors discourse. Such ironic aspect shows its main strategy in his humor discourse. In addition, this study also points out the relation between João Melos literature and the creative process of sublimation, which makes his texts a masterpiece. Throughout João Melos poetic discourse, readers can experience the revival of Angolan History by producing new metaphors, and new points of view. Based on the idea that its humor overcomes tragedy, it is possible to infer that João Melos work would be traumatic, if the reader does not scaffold his texts
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Carini, Michele. "Strategie testuali dell'umorismo nelle Confessioni d'un Italiano : Studio di forme e contenuti." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030122.
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Le travail de recherche a été articulé autour de trois axes principaux : la lecture philologique et sémantique de l’œuvre de Ippolito Nievo étroitement associée à l’étude de la bibliographie critique ; lʼhypothèse raisonnée de l’existence fondamentale, dans la structure même de lʼœuvre, du principe humoristique et lʼétude systématique de sa problématisation théorique ; le repérage et lʼutilisation méthodique des instruments d’analyse les plus appropriés à une analyse de lʼœuvre articulée sur ces choix. Sʼagissant de la réflexion théorique sur la notion même dʼhumour, elle a démarré sur la base des trente premières années du XXe siècle avec les fameux travaux de Freud, de Bergson et de Pirandello. Par ailleurs, à travers les considérations de Francesco Orlando et de Tzvetan Todorov, l’approche freudienne a été reliée à la linguistique structurale et à la néo-rhétorique de Chaïm Perelman et de Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. Ainsi, l’analyse du premier chapitre des Confessioni a permis dʼétablir une fonction argumentative des phénomènes formels et fondamentaux reconductibles à la notion d’humour et de dégager avec netteté l’importance stratégique de cette partie fondamentale du roman à cause de la présence d’une sorte de koinè qui se manifeste ici presque sans solution de continuité, mais se retrouve cependant dans l’œuvre entièreThis research articulates three main axes: a philological and semantic reading of Ippolito Nievo’s work, which is strictly associated with the study of the critical bibliography; the reasoned hypothesis of the fundamental existence of the humourous principle in the novel’s own structure and the systematic study of its theoretical problematisation; and, the location and methodical use of the most appropriate analytical instruments for an analysis of the novel based on these choices. Theoretical thought about the very notion of humor began during the first thirty years of the 20th century with Freud, Bergson and Pirandello’s renowned studies. What’s more, Francesco Orlando and Tzvetan Todorov’s arguments linked the Freudian perspective to structural linguistics as well as to Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca’s neo-rhetorics. Thus, the analysis of the first chapter of Confessioni establishes an argumentative function of the notion of humor’s formal and fundamental phenomena. It also clearly reveals the strategic relevance of this fundamental section of the novel through the presence of a sort of koinè that becomes evidently manifest during the first chapter, but it also appears throughout the entire work
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Kim, Soon Bae. "Irony, Humor, and Ontological Relationality in Literature." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc149621/.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate ontological relationality in literary theory and criticism by critically reflecting on modern theories of literature and by practically examining the literary texts of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, and Oscar Wilde. Traditional studies of literary texts have been oriented toward interpretative or hermeneutic methodologies, focusing on an independent and individual subject in literature. Instead, I explore how relational ontology uncovers the interactive structures interposed between the author, the text, and the audience by examining the system of how the author's creative positioning provokes the reader's reaction through the text. In Chapter I, I critically inquire into modern literary theories of "irony" in Romanticism, New Criticism, and Deconstructionism to show how they tend to disregard the dynamic dimension of interactive relationships between different literary subjects. Chapter II scrutinizes Wilde's humor in An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) in order to reveal the ontological relationships triggered by a creative positioning. In chapter III, I examine Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (c. 1400) and the laughter in "The Miller's Tale" in particular, to examine the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of its interactive relationships. In Chapter IV, I explore Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Othello (1603-4), and The Winter's Tale (1609-11) so as to show how artistic positioning creatively constructs a relational system of dynamic interactions to circulate social ideals and values. In so doing, this dissertation is aimed at revealing the aesthetic values of literature and the objective scope of literary discourse rather than providing yet another analytical paradigm dependent primarily on a single literary subject. Thus, the ontological study is proposed as an alternative, yet primary, dimension of literary criticism and theoretical practice.
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Holoch, Adele Marian. "The serious work of humor in postcolonial literature." Diss., University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1632.
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This dissertation examines the role of humor in contemporary South Asian and African postcolonial literature, arguing that humor opens new spaces for historically marginalized individuals to be heard. I argue that in addition to its unique capacities to question and rebel against colonial authority, humor helps those who deploy it to resist victimhood and enact a psychological rebellion against the circumstances of colonialism and its legacies, and facilitates a sense of community through laughter among both those who deploy it and those who enjoy it as audience members. I establish a theoretical framework based in the work of Aristotle, Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud and Mikhail Bakhtin, then analyze four modes of humor-- satire, irony, black humor, and the grotesque--as they are incorporated in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow (Kenya, 2007); Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (India, 1997); Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India (Pakistan; first published in 1988 as Ice-Candy Man); Manjula Padmanabhan's play Harvest (India, 1997); Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger (India, 2008); Indra Sinha's Animal's People (India, 2008) and Ousmane Sembène's Xala (Senegal, 1973). By reading these literary narratives within a unifying framework of "humor," even as I pay close attention to the differences between them--differences such as their geographical locations, the political situations they engage, the specific cultural codes with which they play, and their unique incorporations of particular humorous modes--I contend that humor ultimately performs very significant work in postcolonial literature, opening many destabilizing and subversive possibilities that more ostensibly serious forms of writing do not share.
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Tschannerl, Volker M. "Das Lachen in der altindischen Literatur /." Frankfurt am Main ; Berlin : P. Lang, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39207063j.
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Carignano, Maria Laura Moneta. "As formas do humor. Copi : um caso argentino /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/91542.
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Resumo: A pesquisa visa estudar a obra de Copi ( Raúl Damonte Botana 1939-1987), escritor argentino, num âmbito maior de questões, que servirão de apoio teórico- crítico possibilitando uma abordagem mais ampla. Da totalidade de sua obra (ele escreveu romances, peças teatrais e é autor também de desenhos e quadrinhos humorísticos), enfatizar-se-á o estudo da série teatral e dentro dela três peças: Cachafaz, A sombra de Wenceslao, e Eva Perón. Elas foram escolhidas por serem altamente representativas da estética controversa, humorística, paródica e irônica do autor. Primeiramente, tem-se como objetivo realizar uma investigação das formas do humor relacionando-as aos textos do autor argentino e procurando uma leitura crítica que permita repensar essas categorias à luz das particularidades da obra de Copi. Num segundo momento, situar-se-ão estas obras do autor em relação à tradição literária argentina. Elas devem ser lidas como um diálogo com a literatura e a história argentina, com os mitos e estigmas de sua cultura (tanto literários quanto históricos) que compõem ou têm composto os "grandes traços" daquilo que se supõe ser a "argentinidade". Em relação com o primeiro objetivo, estudar-se-á teoricamente a gênesis, as especificidades e diferenças entre o humor, a comicidade, a paródia, a sátira e a ironia e formas afins, fazendo um percurso pelos principais filósofos e teóricos que abordaram estas questões. Estudar-se-á especialmente a parodia, por ser ela a forma constitutiva da escrita de Copi, mas também por ser uma das formas recorrentes da arte (tanto literária quanto pictórica) das ultimas décadas. Em relação ao segundo objetivo, ao vincular a obra de Copi a tradição literária argentina, realizar-se-á um estudo dos seguintes gêneros e movimentos da literatura rioplatense: gauchesca, sainete, grotesco, criollismo, tango. A intenção da pesquisa visa esclarecer e fornecer uma leitura...
Abstract: This research aims to study the work of Copi (Raúl Damonte Botana 1939-1987), Argentinean writer, in a broader scenery of topics, that will be of theoretical and critical support, to permit a more general boarding. From the totality of his work (he wrote novels, theatrical plays, and is also the author of cartoons and humoristic comics), we will emphasize the study of his theater and within it three plays: Cachafaz, A sombra de Wenceslao, and Eva Perón. They were chosen because they are highly representative of the author's controversial esthetics, humorous, parodic and ironic. Our first objective is to investigate about the forms of humor relating them to the texts of the Argentinean author and looking for a critical reading that allows us to represent those categories in the light of the particularities of Copi's work. In a second time, we are going to situate the author's texts in relation to the Argentinean literature. His work must to be read as a conversation with the Argentinean literature and history, with the myths and stigma of its culture (both literary and historical) that are part or have been part of the "great traits" of what is supposed to be the "argentinity". In relation to our first objective, we will study the genesis, the specificity and the differences between the humor, the hilarious, the parody, the satire and the irony and related forms, beginning from the main philosophers and theoretic whom studied these themes. The parody is specially going to be analyzed, not only because it is the form that constitutes Copi's work, but also because it is one of the recurrent forms of the art (both literary and pictorial) of the lasts decades. In relation to our second objective, when relating Copi's work to the Argentinean literature, we are going to study the following genera and movements of Rioplatense literature: gauchesca, sainete, grotesco, criollismo, tango. The intention of this research aims to...
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Carignano, Maria Laura Moneta [UNESP]. "As formas do humor. Copi: um caso argentino." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/91542.
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A pesquisa visa estudar a obra de Copi ( Raúl Damonte Botana 1939-1987), escritor argentino, num âmbito maior de questões, que servirão de apoio teórico- crítico possibilitando uma abordagem mais ampla. Da totalidade de sua obra (ele escreveu romances, peças teatrais e é autor também de desenhos e quadrinhos humorísticos), enfatizar-se-á o estudo da série teatral e dentro dela três peças: Cachafaz, A sombra de Wenceslao, e Eva Perón. Elas foram escolhidas por serem altamente representativas da estética controversa, humorística, paródica e irônica do autor. Primeiramente, tem-se como objetivo realizar uma investigação das formas do humor relacionando-as aos textos do autor argentino e procurando uma leitura crítica que permita repensar essas categorias à luz das particularidades da obra de Copi. Num segundo momento, situar-se-ão estas obras do autor em relação à tradição literária argentina. Elas devem ser lidas como um diálogo com a literatura e a história argentina, com os mitos e estigmas de sua cultura (tanto literários quanto históricos) que compõem ou têm composto os “grandes traços” daquilo que se supõe ser a “argentinidade”. Em relação com o primeiro objetivo, estudar-se-á teoricamente a gênesis, as especificidades e diferenças entre o humor, a comicidade, a paródia, a sátira e a ironia e formas afins, fazendo um percurso pelos principais filósofos e teóricos que abordaram estas questões. Estudar-se-á especialmente a parodia, por ser ela a forma constitutiva da escrita de Copi, mas também por ser uma das formas recorrentes da arte (tanto literária quanto pictórica) das ultimas décadas. Em relação ao segundo objetivo, ao vincular a obra de Copi a tradição literária argentina, realizar-se-á um estudo dos seguintes gêneros e movimentos da literatura rioplatense: gauchesca, sainete, grotesco, criollismo, tango. A intenção da pesquisa visa esclarecer e fornecer uma leitura...
This research aims to study the work of Copi (Raúl Damonte Botana 1939-1987), Argentinean writer, in a broader scenery of topics, that will be of theoretical and critical support, to permit a more general boarding. From the totality of his work (he wrote novels, theatrical plays, and is also the author of cartoons and humoristic comics), we will emphasize the study of his theater and within it three plays: Cachafaz, A sombra de Wenceslao, and Eva Perón. They were chosen because they are highly representative of the author’s controversial esthetics, humorous, parodic and ironic. Our first objective is to investigate about the forms of humor relating them to the texts of the Argentinean author and looking for a critical reading that allows us to represent those categories in the light of the particularities of Copi’s work. In a second time, we are going to situate the author’s texts in relation to the Argentinean literature. His work must to be read as a conversation with the Argentinean literature and history, with the myths and stigma of its culture (both literary and historical) that are part or have been part of the “great traits” of what is supposed to be the “argentinity”. In relation to our first objective, we will study the genesis, the specificity and the differences between the humor, the hilarious, the parody, the satire and the irony and related forms, beginning from the main philosophers and theoretic whom studied these themes. The parody is specially going to be analyzed, not only because it is the form that constitutes Copi’s work, but also because it is one of the recurrent forms of the art (both literary and pictorial) of the lasts decades. In relation to our second objective, when relating Copi’s work to the Argentinean literature, we are going to study the following genera and movements of Rioplatense literature: gauchesca, sainete, grotesco, criollismo, tango. The intention of this research aims to...
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Gillota, David. "Belly Laughs: Body Humor in Contemporary American Literature and Film." Scholarly Repository, 2008. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/42.
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Belly Laughs: Body Humor in Contemporary American Literature and Film Scholars are more than happy to laugh at but seem somewhat reluctant to discuss body humor, which is perhaps the most neglected form of comedy in recent criticism. In this dissertation, I examine the ways in which contemporary American writers and filmmakers use body humor in their works, not only in moments of so-called "comic relief" but also as a valid way of exploring many of the same issues that postmodern artists typically interrogate in their more somber moments. The writers discussed in this project-Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, Charles Johnson, and Woody Allen-were chosen for the divergent ways in which they present the body's comic predicament in psychological, metaphysical, and historical situations. The introduction explains the diverse traditions that these artists draw upon and considers how various theoretical approaches can affect our understanding of body humor. The first chapter examines Jewish-American novelist Philip Roth's use of absurd and grotesque body imagery as manifestations of his characters' moral dilemmas. The second chapter looks at how slapstick comedy informs a worldview dominated by paranioa and chaos in Thomas Pynchon's novels. Chapter Three looks at Woody Allen's early films, in which he parodies and revises the slapstick cinematic tradition of artists like Charlie Chaplin and The Marx Brothers. Chapter Four considers African-American writer and cartoonist Charles Johnson's depiction of the ways in which the body's desires and pitfalls complicate the quest for spiritual enlightenment.
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Reff, Robert Charles. "Developing the humor styles questionnaire-revised : a review of the current humor literature and a revised measure." Online access for everyone, 2006. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Summer2006/r%5Freff%5F051706.pdf.
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Klein-Scholz, Christelle. ""I remember when a diagnosis was a death sentence" : lʼécriture du SIDA et de la mort dans la littérature gay. : David Feinberg, Tony Kushner et Armistead Maupin." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014AIXM3060/document.
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Cette thèse présente une réflexion sur lʼécriture du SIDA et de la mort dans la littérature gay américaine à travers les oeuvres de David Feinberg, Tony Kushner et Armistead Maupin. À la croisée dʼun thème (le SIDA) et dʼun type de littérature (la littérature gay, qui préexistait à lʼépidémie), cette étude prend en considération les multiples dimensions de lʼépidémie de VIH/SIDA : dans lʼobjectif dʼacquérir « une connaissance anthropologique par la littérature et le roman » (Laplantine), en passant outre les « traditional disciplinary boundaries » (Campbell & Kean), elle montre que, si le SIDA fut probablement un rendez-vous manqué avec lʼhistoire, ce ne fut pas le cas avec la littérature. Quand les médias, les pouvoirs publics, les autorités sanitaires et la population générale nʼont pas pris la mesure de la catastrophe, les auteurs gays, eux, ont pris le SIDA à bras le corps, en même temps que le VIH prenait possession du leur, et ont produit des oeuvres qui méritent un travail dʼexégèse, notamment parce que lʼépidémie de VIH/SIDA nʼest toujours pas sous contrôle. À partir des oeuvres de ces auteurs, qui constituent un échantillon tant au niveau générique quʼen termes de réception, elle montre que la littérature gay du SIDA ne constitue tout au plus quʼune césure, et non une rupture, avec les littératures qui lʼont précédée. Le corps écorché par le SIDA prend, à cause de cette épidémie anachronique (apparue à une époque où les hommes semblaient pouvoir avoir la conviction que les épidémies appartenaient au passé), une place centrale dans les vies et dans les oeuvres. Le corps mourant devient un topos, à la fois un lieu dʼexploration et le principe qui informe le texteThis dissertation explores the way AIDS and death are treated in American gay literature, with a focus on works by David Feinberg, Tony Kushner and Armistead Maupin. At a crossroads where a theme (AIDS) meets a type of literature (gay literature, which pre-existed the epidemic), this dissertation takes into account the many dimensions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic: aiming at anthropological knowledge through literature (Laplantine), moving "beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries" (Campbell & Kean), it shows that, when it comes to AIDS, history probably missed the boat, but literature did not. The media, the government officials, the health authorities and the general population never took the full measure of the HIV/AIDS crisis; gay authors, by contrast, fully confronted the epidemic, while HIV was taking hold in their bodies, and produced works that deserve to be read and examined, notably because, three decades after the first cases, the HIV/AIDS epidemic still is not under control. Based on an examination of works by the three authors, that constitute a sample both in generic terms (autobiography/autofiction, novel, drama) and in terms of reception, it shows that the gay literature of AIDS is, at most, a crack or a slit, not a breakaway from the literatures that came before. As a result of this anachronistic epidemic (it appeared at a time when Man seemed to be able to believe that epidemics were a thing of the past), the body wounded by AIDS takes center stage in their lives and in their works. The dying body becomes a topos, a place of exploration and the motif that structures the text
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Vosloo, Jan 1934. "Die manifestering van humor in geselekteerde Afrikaanse kortverhaaltekste." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53382.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: At the start of the twentieth century Afrikaans humour was researched quite intensively. Since then, however, such research has been relatively sporadic and has concentrated on related sub-genres of humour, such as satire, irony and wit. This dissertation investigates anew the phenomenon of humour as manifested in Afrikaans short story texts, from the dual starting points of a current context and of the extensive theoretical studies done by other researchers worldwide. In the process, humour is viewed as a communicative strategy, a combination of codes which writers utilize within a specific socio-political context in order to create humorous effects and elicit resultant reactions from readers. One of the primary aims of this investigation into the codes and strategies employed by Afrikaans writers in the humorous short story genre, is to determine whether they coincide with universal tendencies or whether they have certain unique features. After a broad exposition of the historical background and of the evolution of the continually changing concept humour, attention is paid to theories regarding its nature and effect. The creative interaction between related modi, like comedy, satire, irony, wit, burlesque, travesty, parody, caricature, grotesque, absurd and black humour and their contribution to one's experience of humour are all researched. Initially, the Afrikaans humour-tradition is set against its historical background. Following this, a more detailed investigation considers strategies of humour selected from Afrikaans short story texts from 1884 to 2001. These are selected for their variety of types of humour and according to criteria relating to structure, style and convention. The major emphasis is placed on short stories of the past two decades, in an attempt to measure the era-relatedness of humour and the interaction with the prevailing socio-political context. These various stylistic strategies are contextualized in writers' deliberate attempts to create a humorous outcome. Along with generally universal characteristics - like the interaction of humorous and non-humorous texts, with time-bound trends (in common with other literatures) - it is concluded that the Afrikaans humorous short story is strongly ancho.ed both in relevance and contextuality. Humour remains a vibrant aspect of the Afrikaans short story and, by keeping this tradition alive, it also remains popular with the reading public.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Nadat daar aan die begin van die twintigste eeu betreklik intensiewe navorsing oor humor in Afrikaans gepubliseer is, het sedertdien slegs sporadiese studies verskyn oor verwante humormodi soos satire, ironie en geestigheid. Hierdie proefskrif wil gevolglik vanuit 'n huidige konteks, en na aanleiding van die uitgebreide teoretisering en navorsing elders ter wêreld, die verskynsel humor opnuut ondersoek, soos gemanifesteer in Afrikaanse kortverhaaltekste. Humor word in die proses benader as 'n kommunikatiewe strategie, 'n versameling kodes wat skrywers binne 'n bepaalde sosio-politieke konteks aanwend, met die oogmerk om humoristiese effekte te bewerkstellig en bepaalde reaksies by lesers uit te lok. Dié studie wil veral vasstel watter kodes en strategieë Afrikaanse humoristiese kortverhaalskrywers hierby gebruik, of dit ooreenstem met breë tendense elders of eie is aan Afrikaans. Na 'n oorsigtelike uiteensetting van die historiese grondslae en die evolusie van die steeds veranderende begrip humor, word aandag bestee aan teorieë oor die aard en effek daarvan. Die vrugbare interaksie tussen verwante modi soos die komedie, satire, ironie, geestigheid, die burleske, travestie, parodie, karikatuur, die groteske, die absurde en swart humor, asook die bydrae daarvan tot die humorbelewing, word vervolgens ondersoek. Die Afrikaanse humortradisie word eers oorsigtelik histories nagespeur, waarna nadere ondersoek ingestel word na humorstrategieë aan die hand van Afrikaanse kortverhaaltekste wat dateer van 1884 tot 2001, geselekteer op grond van sowel verskeidenheid met betrekking tot die tipe humor as kriteria soos struktuur, styl en konvensie. Die klem val op kortverhale uit die afgelope twee dekades, ten einde aspekte soos die tydgebondenheid van humor en die interaksie met die heersende sosiopolitieke konteks te probeer bepaal. Die verskillende stylstrategieë wat geïdentifiseer is, word in verband gebring met die skrywers se berekende opset om 'n humoristiese uitkoms te bewerkstellig. Naas meer universele kenmerke, soos die wisselwerking tussen humor en erns in dié tipe tekste en tydspesifieke neigings (in ooreenstemming met ander letterkundes), soos die toename in groteske en absurde tipe verhale, word bevind dat die Afrikaanse humor- en humoristiese verhaal sterk kontekstueel veranker is. Humor in die Afrikaanse kortverhaal word steeds op 'n lewenskragtige wyse beoefen deur skrywers en bly gewild by lesers.
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Flassbeck, Marianne. "Gauklerin der Literatur Elizabeth von Arnim und der weibliche Humor /." Rüsselsheim : Göttert, 2003. http://books.google.com/books?id=hkFbAAAAMAAJ.
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Morlóc, Luzia Marina Keller. "ESTUDOS COMPARATIVOS ENTRE PINTURA E LITERATURA." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2018. http://tede2.pucgoias.edu.br:8080/handle/tede/3961.
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This research aims at reanalyzing an interpretative analysis between Edival Lourenço 's work Centopeia de Neon and some paintings of avant - garde dadaist and surrealist currents based on the aesthetic currents of humor, laughter and irony. The choice to make a comparative study between the novel Centopeia de Neon by Edival Lourenço and some paintings selected from the cutting edge of Dadaism and Surrealism was due to the fact that these arts present similarities and establish intertextual relations between the fields of work. As well as the emphasis attributed to works as a means of breaking with traditional art forms. The current Dadaist vanguard brings features such as: the critique of capitalism and consumption; the emphasis on the absurd and the themes and contents that deny the formal logic, with a strong pessimistic and ironic character, mainly in relation to political events. In this way, we propose a cultural and social dialogue between the two specific types of artistic manifestations Painting and Literature.
Esta pesquisa tem como escopo realizar uma analise interpretativa entre a obra A Centopeia de Neon, de Edival Lourenço e algumas pinturas das correntes vanguardistas dadaísta e surrealista tendo como base teórica as correntes estéticas do humor, do riso e da ironia. A escolha por fazer um estudo comparativo entre o romance A Centopeia de Neon, de Edival Lourenço e algumas pinturas selecionadas/retiradas das correntes de vanguarda Dadaísmo e Surrealismo se deu por essas artes apresentarem semelhanças e estabelecerem relações intertextuais entre os campos de trabalho. Assim como o destaque atribuído às obras como meio de ruptura com as formas de arte tradicionais. A corrente de vanguarda Dadaísta traz características tais como: a crítica ao capitalismo e ao consumo; a ênfase no absurdo e nos temas e conteúdos que negam a lógica formal, com um forte caráter pessimista e irônico, principalmente com relação aos acontecimentos políticos. Deste modo, propomos um diálogo cultural e social entre os dois tipos específicos de manifestações artísticas Pintura e Literatura.