comic affirmation and subversion in traditional and modern media
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Pailer, Gaby > (ed.)
- Creator
- Böhn, Andreas > [ed]
- Creator
- Horlacher, Stefan > [ed]
- Creator
- Scheck, Ulrich > [ed]
- Contributor
- Speck, Oliver C.
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2009
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, romans, media, postkolonialisme, multicultureel, travestie, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This essay collection is dedicated to intersections between gender theories and theories of laughter, humour, and comedy. It 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.