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Framing literary humour : cells, masks and bodies as 20th-century sites of imprisonment
- Title
- Framing literary humour : cells, masks and bodies as 20th-century sites of imprisonment / Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard.
- Author
- Mathieu-Lessard, Jeanne
- Publication
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- 195 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Contrary to their oppressive design, might structures of imprisonment actually incite humour, itself a form of liberation? Starting from the most obvious cases of imprisonment (war camps, prison cells) and moving to the less obvious (masks, bodies), Containing Humour demonstrates how 20th-century humour in theory and in fiction cannot be fully understood without a careful look at its connection with the notion of imprisonment. Understanding imprisonment as a concrete spatial setting or a metaphorical image, Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard analyzes selected works of Romain Gary, Giovannino Guareschi, Wyndham Lewis, Vladimir Nabokov and Luigi Pirandello to reconfigure confinement as an essential structural condition for the emergence of humour"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-192) and index.
- Contents
- Humour and imprisonment -- Humour in the cell: prison cells and war camps -- Social entrapment: humoristic characters vs. the world -- Humour in the cells: configurations of the body as prison -- Conclusion: a geometry of humour
- Call Number
- JFE 20-3749
- ISBN
- 9781501356551
- 1501356550
- 9781501356568 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781501356575 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019026043
- OCLC
- 1107057706
- Author
- Mathieu-Lessard, Jeanne, author.
- Title
- Framing literary humour : cells, masks and bodies as 20th-century sites of imprisonment / Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-192) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- Online version: Mathieu-Lessard, Jeanne, Framing literary humour 1. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 9781501356568 (DLC) 2019026044
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-3749