UID:
edocfu_9959236179602883
Format:
1 online resource (386 pages).
ISBN:
90-420-2673-1
Series Statement:
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik ; 70
Content:
This essay collection is dedicated to intersections between gender theories and theories of laughter, humour, and comedy. It is based on the results of a three-year research programme, entitled “Gender – Laughter – Media” (2003-2006) and includes a series of investigations on traditional and modern media in western cultures from the 18th to the 20th century. A theoretical opening part is followed by four thematic sections that explore the multiple forms of irritating stereotypical gender perceptions; aspects of (post-)colonialism and multiculturalism; the comic impact of literary and media genres in different national cultures; as well as the different comic strategies in fictional, philosophical, artistic or real life communication. The volume presents a variety of new approaches to the overlaps between gender and laughter that have only barely been considered in groundbreaking research. It forms a valuable read for scholars of literary, theatre, media, and cultural studies, at the same time reaching out to a general readership.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Preliminary Material /
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Introduction /
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A Short Introduction to Theories of Humour, the Comic, and Laughter /
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Subversions of Gender Identities through Laughter and the Comic? /
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“Kiss a white Galathea, she will laugh and blush”: Laughter, Blush, and Gender Roles in Gottfried Keller’s Novella Cycle A Formula for Love. The Epigram (1881) /
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“A comic turn, turned serious”: Humour, Body Modification, and the Natural in Fay Weldon’s The Life and Loves of a She Devil /
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“From now on, I am Carmen”: Imagining Cross-Dressing as Comic Protest in the Life and Work of Romanian-German Author Franz Hodjak /
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Where No Woman Has Gone Before: Humour and Gender Crossing in Star Trek’s Voyager and Enterprise /
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“To be educated is to become a Harlequin”: Cross-Skinning as Carnivalesque Hybridity in Michel Serres, Hannah Höch’s Dada, and Orlan’s Body Art /
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Multi-Layered Conflicts with the Norm: Gender and Cultural Diversity in Two Comedies of the German Enlightenment /
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Indigenous Laughter: The Voice of the Other in Tales from the “South Seas” /
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Subverting the Pantragic Heroine: Nestroy against Hebbel /
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Black and White in Color or Black Victory? The Comic Effect of Displacement in the Film Noirs et blancs en couleur (1976) by Jean-Jacques Annaud /
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The City as Stage of Transgression: Performance, Picaresque Reminiscences, and Linguistic Incongruity in Emine S. Özdamar’s The Bridge of the Golden Horn /
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Moral Ideal and Physical Desire: Gender Roles, Sex, and Comic Elements in the Rococo Tales of Christoph Martin Wieland /
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Social Satire, Literary Parody, and Gender Critique in French and German Fairy Tales of the Enlightenment: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friederike Helene Unger /
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“But I’m a Lady!” Undoing Gender Bending in Contemporary British Radio Comedy /
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Mockumentalism: Re-Casting the Void in Contemporary British TV Comedy /
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Couples and Friends: Comic Strategies and Social Structures in German and American Comedy Series /
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Affirmative Humour in Bully Herbig’s Parody of Star Wars/Star Trek: (T)Raumschiff Surprise /
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May I Laugh about Women’s Lib? or: The Difficult Relationship of Humour and Feminism in Margaret Atwood, Caryl Churchill, and Helen Fielding /
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Aletheia as Striptease: Gendered Allegories of Truth in Heidegger, Gorgias, and Barthes /
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Judith Butler and the Problem of Adequacy, or: The Epistemological Dimension of Laughter /
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Comparing Same-Gender and Opposite-Gender Conversations: a Laughing Matter? /
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The Joy of Anti-Art: Subversion through Humour in Dada /
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List of Contributors /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-420-2672-3
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Humor.
