Search results for "Humour theory"

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Humor studies in French and English: Putting Humpty Dumpty back together again?

2013

International audience

Humour theory[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature[SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureAnglophone literature and cultureFrancophone literature and culture[ SHS.LITT ] Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureHumourComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
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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 …

[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureHumour theoryReflexivity[SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureHistory of humourEngilish literature[ SHS.LITT ] Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureFrench literature
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Je ne peux pas continuer, je vais continuer… : le bilinguisme de Beckett et la définition de l’humour

2011

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[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureHumour theory[SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureAuto-traductionBilinguisme[ SHS.LITT ] Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureHumourComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUSBeckett Samuel
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