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The Palgrave handbook of humour, history, and methodology / Daniel Derrin, Hannah Burrows, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Palgrave handbooks
- PALGRAVE HANDBOOKS.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wit and humor--Social aspects--History.
- Wit and humor.
- Civilization--Social aspects--History.
- Civilization.
- Civilization--Social aspects.
- History.
- Wit and humor--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Other Title:
- Handbook of humour, history, and methodology
- Humour, history, and methodology
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Part I: Preliminaries: terms and theories
- 1. Introduction- Daniel Derrin
- 2. The Study of Past Humour: Historicity and the limits of Method- Conal Condren
- 3. No Sense of Humour? Humour Words in Old Norse- Hannah Burrows
- 4. Rewriting Laughter in Early Modern Europe- Lucy Rayfield
- 5. The Humour of Humours: Comedy Theory and Eighteenth-Century Histories of Emotions- Rebecca Tierney-Hynes
- 6. Bergsons Theory of the Comic and its Applicability to Sixteenth-Century Japanese Comedy- Jessica Milner Davis
- 7. Comic Character and Counter-violation: Critiquing Benign Violation Theory- Daniel Derrin
- 8. Humour and Religion: New Directions?- Richard A. Gardner
- Part II: Case studies
- 9. Visual Humour on Greek Vases (550-350 BC): Three Approaches to the Ambivalence of Ugliness in Popular Culture- Alexandre Mitchell
- 10. Approaching Jokes and Jestbooks in Premodern China- Giulia Baccini
- 11. Testing the Limits of Pirandellos Umorismo: a Case Study Based on Xiaolin Guangji- Antonio Leggieri
- 12. The Monsters that Laugh Back: Humour as a Rhetorical Apophasis in Medieval Monstrology- Rafa Borysawski
- 13. Medieval Jokes in Serious Contexts: Speaking Humour to Power- Martha Bayless
- 14. Lightness and Maistrye: Herod, Humour and Temptation in Early English Drama- Jamie Beckett
- 15. Embodied Laughter: Rabelais and the Medical Humanities- Alison Williams
- 16. Naive Parody in Rabelais- John Parkin
- 17. By Gods Arse: Genre, Humour and Religion in William Wagers Moral Interludes- Lieke Stelling
- 18. Romantic Irony: Problems of Interpretation in Schlegel and Carlyle- Giles Whiteley
- 19. Unlocking Verbal-Visual Puns in Late-Nineteenth-Century Japanese Cartoons- Ronald Stewart
- 20. Popular Humour in Nordic Jesting Songs of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Danish Recordings of Oral Song Tradition- Lene Halskov Hansen
- 21. Spanish Flu: The First Modern Case of Viral Humour?- Nikita Lobanov
- Part III: Humour of the Past in the Present
- 22. Translating Humour in The Song of Roland- John DuVal
- 23.Intercultural and Interartistic Transfers of Shandean Humour in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries- Yen-Mai Tran-Gervat
- 24. The Scholars, Chronique indiscrete or Neoficialnaja istorija? The challenge of Translating Eighteenth-century Chinese Irony and Grotesque for Contemporary Western Audiences- Anna Di Toro
- 25. Putting Humour on Display- Laurence Grove
- 26. Building The Old Joke Archive- Bob Nicholson and Mark Hall.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed February 8, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9783030566463
- 3030566463
- Publisher Number:
- 99987196796
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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