Search results for "Humour"
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Literature
2014
History of humor: Early modern Europe
2014
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Le Gag
2015
La notion de gag n'appartient pas en propre à la bande dessinée. Il y a des gags au cinéma, ils caractérisent même un genre de cinéma, le cinéma burlesque. Il y a des gags à la télévision, pensez aux « vidéo-gags ». Il y a, depuis beaucoup plus longtemps, des gags au théâtre et dans tous les arts vivants qui mettent en scène le corps d'un acteur, le cirque notamment. Si l'on suit l'analyse célèbre du rire par Bergson, le gag n'appartiendrait pas même au seul domaine esthétique. Le premier événement qu'il donne en exemple dans son essai est, on le sait, une scène de rue : Un homme, qui courait dans la rue, trébuche et tombe : les passants rient […]. Une pierre était peut-être sur le chemin. …
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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The humour in science fiction litterature : identification ans specification of its contours, its attributes, its techniques and its variations
2014
This thesis is divided in two parts. The first part suggests a theory of humour, it starts studying that concept by explaining its enunciative, logical or syntactical structures in order to draw a clear vision of it, before offering a first attempt to define it. Then it establishes necessary distinctions between the various categories of the risible to refine the delineation of the contours of humour. Once the concept is marked out, the theory of humour suggests an original typology of humourous themes and a study of the three main variations of humour, before focusing on its purpose. The second part discusses, in the light of certain concepts developed in the first part, the question of hu…
Comedy, society and humour: Methodologies for transhistorical and transcultural interpretation
2014
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L’humour français et anglais, entre recherche et pratique : Comment joindre les deux (quatre) bouts ?
2013
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Self-translation, self-reflection, self-derision: Samuel Beckett’s bilingual humour
2013
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Nth-degree humour: The curious case of Dr. Faustroll, b. and d. 1898
2012
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