Search results for "Humour theory"
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Humor studies in French and English: Putting Humpty Dumpty back together again?
2013
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Reflecting back, or What can the French tell the English about humour?
2011
Full text available online: http://openjournals.library.usyd.edu.au/index.php/SSE/article/view/5321; International audience; This paper explores the conceptual and historical differences between Francophone and Anglophone understandings of humour. While successive attempts by French scholars to classify and define the imported concept of humour offer a basis for a 'reciprocal definition' of the French scholarly mind, this essay aims in a different direction, seeking to show how the more specific French understanding of humour offers a useful foil for thinking about the broader English concept, and particularly how the reflexive dimension associated with 'humour' has particular applications …
Je ne peux pas continuer, je vais continuer… : le bilinguisme de Beckett et la définition de l’humour
2011
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