| Description |
1 online resource (386 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik ; 70 |
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Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik ; Bd. 70.
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| Contents |
Preliminary Material / Gaby Pailer , Andreas Böhn , Stefan Horlacher and Ulrich Scheck -- Introduction / Gaby Pailer -- A Short Introduction to Theories of Humour, the Comic, and Laughter / Stefan Horlacher -- Subversions of Gender Identities through Laughter and the Comic? / Andreas Böhn -- "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) / Jessica Hamann -- "A comic turn, turned serious": Humour, Body Modification, and the Natural in Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She Devil / Beth Pentney -- "From now on, I am Carmen": Imagining Cross-Dressing as Comic Protest in the Life and Work of Romanian-German Author Franz Hodjak / Raluca Cernahoschi -- Where No Woman Has Gone Before: Humour and Gender Crossing in Star Trek's Voyager and Enterprise / Ulrich Scheck -- "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 / Markus Hallensleben -- Multi-Layered Conflicts with the Norm: Gender and Cultural Diversity in Two Comedies of the German Enlightenment / Gaby Pailer -- Indigenous Laughter: The Voice of the Other in Tales from the "South Seas" / Sabine Wilke -- Subverting the Pantragic Heroine: Nestroy against Hebbel / Gabrijela Mecky Zaragoza -- 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 / Jakub Kazecki -- The City as Stage of Transgression: Performance, Picaresque Reminiscences, and Linguistic Incongruity in Emine S. Özdamar's The Bridge of the Golden Horn / Karin Lornsen -- Moral Ideal and Physical Desire: Gender Roles, Sex, and Comic Elements in the Rococo Tales of Christoph Martin Wieland / Andreas Seidler -- Social Satire, Literary Parody, and Gender Critique in French and German Fairy Tales of the Enlightenment: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friederike Helene Unger / Birte Giesler -- "But I'm a Lady!" Undoing Gender Bending in Contemporary British Radio Comedy / Ellie Kennedy -- Mockumentalism: Re-Casting the Void in Contemporary British TV Comedy / Stear Peter -- Couples and Friends: Comic Strategies and Social Structures in German and American Comedy Series / Christine Mielke -- Affirmative Humour in Bully Herbig's Parody of Star Wars/Star Trek: (T)Raumschiff Surprise / Frank Degler -- May I Laugh about Women's Lib? or: The Difficult Relationship of Humour and Feminism in Margaret Atwood, Caryl Churchill, and Helen Fielding / Susanne Bach -- Aletheia as Striptease: Gendered Allegories of Truth in Heidegger, Gorgias, and Barthes / Stefan Börnchen -- Judith Butler and the Problem of Adequacy, or: The Epistemological Dimension of Laughter / Volker Helbig -- Comparing Same-Gender and Opposite-Gender Conversations: a Laughing Matter? / Caroline L. Rieger -- The Joy of Anti-Art: Subversion through Humour in Dada / Oliver C. Speck -- List of Contributors / Gaby Pailer , Andreas Böhn , Stefan Horlacher and Ulrich Scheck |
| Summary |
"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."--Publisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Wit and humor -- History and criticism.
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Wit and humor in motion pictures.
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Sex role -- Humor
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Gender identity -- Humor
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Laughter.
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Comedy.
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Comic, The.
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Literature -- History and criticism
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comedy plays.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Comedy
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Comic, The
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Gender identity
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Laughter
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Literature
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Wit and humor in motion pictures
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Sex role
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Wit and humor
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Humor
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pailer, Gaby.
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| ISBN |
9789042026735 |
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9042026731 |
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