Author : Jennifer Yee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 34,61 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019872263X
Bridging the gap between postcolonial theory and nineteenth-century literary studies, The Colonial Comedy renews our vision of key authors of realist canon, including Balzac, Flaubert, Zola and Maupassant.
Author : Graeme Harper
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 25,5 MB
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1847142168
Drawing together for the first time original work from international specialists, this book assesses the role and character of comedy and fantasy in colonial societies from India to Ireland, Australia to Cuba, Africa to North America. There are cross-cultural comparisons and consideration of both imperial responses and colonized resistance. The book deals with oral as well as written traditions, the history of comic and fantastic discourse, visual, theatrical and literary representations as well as historical and cultural accounts.
Author : Mounir Sanhaji
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 1527518353
This book offers an inquiry into the ways in which entertainment discourse extends beyond entertainment and its initial humorous function due to its political and ideological underpinnings. Rather than considering entertainment discourse as “just for fun”, this book justifies the importance of taking it seriously. Humorous features in entertainment discourses can trivialize some stereotypical moments, and, in doing so, encourage viewers to downplay the seriousness of the events they are watching. In other words, these stereotypical images are camouflaged and mitigated by the inclusion of humorous elements and imaginative images, which can lead the audience to perceive them as natural scenes that do not deserve criticism. Embedding banalities within entertainment discourses remains an effective strategy that drives the audience to laugh, meaning that they fail to detect the embedded ideologies regarding different cultures and identities. This confirms the fact that “small talk” can often become “big talk”.
Author : Lidia Dina Sciama
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 11,69 MB
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1782385436
Anthropological writings on humor are not very numerous or extensive, but they do contain a great deal of insight into the diverse mental and social processes that underlie joking and laughter. On the basis of a wide range of ethnographic and textual materials, the chapters examine the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humor and its potential to bring about a sense of amity and mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people. Unfortunately, though, cartoons, jokes, and parodies can cause irremediable distress and offence. Nevertheless, contributors’ cross-cultural evidence confirms that the positive aspects of humor far outweigh the danger of deepening divisions and fueling hostilities
Author : John Van Druten
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822201045
THE STORY: Gillian Holroyd is one of the few modern people who can actually cast spells and perform feats of supernaturalism. She casts a spell over an unattached publisher, Shepherd Henderson, partly to keep him away from a rival and partly becaus
Author : Dafna Ruppin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0861969235
This fascinating study of early cinema in the Netherlands Indies explores the influences of new media technology on colonial society. The Komedi Bioscoop traces the emergence of a local culture of movie-going in the Netherlands Indies (present-day Indonesia) from 1896 until 1914. It outlines the introduction of the new technology by independent touring exhibitors, the constitution of a market for moving picture shows, the embedding of moving picture exhibitions within the local popular entertainment scene, and the Dutch colonial authorities’ efforts to control film consumption and distribution. Dafna Ruppin focuses on the cinema as a social institution in which technology, race, and colonialism converged. In her illuminating study, moving picture venues in the Indies—ranging from canvas or bamboo tents to cinema palaces of brick and stone—are perceived as liminal spaces in which daily interactions across boundaries could occur within colonial Indonesia’s multi-ethnic and increasingly polarized colonial society.
Author : Jennifer Yee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1351567462
In the course of the nineteenth century France built up a colonial empire second only to Britain's. The literary tradition in which it dealt with its colonial 'Other' is frequently understood in terms of Edward Said's description of Orientalism as both a Western projection and a 'will to govern' over the Orient. There is, however, a body of works that eludes such a simple categorisation, offering glimpses of colonial resistance, of a critique of imperialist hegemony, or of a blurring of the boundaries between the Self and the Other. Some of the ways in which the imperialist enterprise is subverted in the metropolitan literature of this period are examined in this volume through detailed case studies of key works by Chateaubriand, Hugo, Flaubert and Segalen.
Author : Jeff Morgan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786499842
Comic poetry is serious stuff, combining incongruity, satire and psychological effects to provide us a brief victory over reason--which could help us save ourselves, if not the world. This book champions the literary movement of comic poetry in the U.S., providing an historical context and exploring the work of such writers as Denise Duhamel, Campbell McGrath, Billy Collins, Thomas Lux and Tony Hoagland. Their techniques reveal how they make us laugh while addressing important social concerns.
Author : Sarah Ilott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 23,33 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137505222
This study analyses four new genres of literature and film that have evolved to accommodate and negotiate the changing face of postcolonial Britain since 1990: British Muslim Bildungsromane, gothic tales of postcolonial England, the subcultural urban novel and multicultural British comedy.
Author : Mark J. Rose
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 12,56 MB
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : North America
ISBN : 9780997555417
A modern day scientist wakes up in 1762 Virginia and works to win the hand of a wealthy colonial woman.
