Publication

2010 - Rodopi, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Language

English

Word Count

48,000 words, Guess

Page Count

192 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-109042028238
  • ISBN-139789042028234
  • Library of Congress Control Number2010294293
  • OCLC Control Number530277439
  • Better World Books9789042028234
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Classifications

  • LCCPN56.H83 H93 2010
  • LCCPN56.H83H93 2010

Description

"An interdisciplinary and transcultural study of comedy in a pan-European perspective that include East, West, and Southern European examples. These range from humour in Polish poetry via jokes about Italian migrants in English-speaking TV commercials to Turkish comedy, literature and cartoons in Germany, Turkish, Surinamese, Iranian and Moroccan literary humour in the Netherlands, Beur humour in many media in France, and Asian humour in literature, film, and TV series in Great Britain. The volume is prefaced and informed by contemporary postcolonial theories that show humour not as an essential quality of each particular culture or as a common denominator of humanity, but as a complex structure of dialogue, conflict, and sometimes resolution. The volume is of interest for students and scholars of Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, and Media Studies as well as for students and experts in the cultures and literatures that are covered in the collection of essays. It is relevant for courses on globalisation, migration, and integration."--Publisher's description.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft -- 130

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