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Framing Literary Humour: Cells, Masks and Bodies as 20th-Century Sites of Imprisonment - Hardcover

Mathieu-Lessard, Jeanne

 
9781501356551: Framing Literary Humour: Cells, Masks and Bodies as 20th-Century Sites of Imprisonment
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1501356550 ISBN 13: 9781501356551
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

Synopsis

Contrary to what their oppressive design would lead us to believe, might structures of imprisonment actually incite humour? Starting from the most obvious areas of imprisonment (war camps, prison cells) and moving to the less obvious (masks, bodies), Framing Literary Humour demonstrates how 20th-century humour in theory and in fiction cannot be fully understood without a careful look at its connection with the notion of imprisonment. Understanding imprisonment as a concrete spatial setting or a metaphorical image, Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard analyses selected works of Romain Gary, Giovannino Guareschi, Wyndham Lewis, Vladimir Nabokov and Luigi Pirandello to reconfigure confinement as an essential structural condition for the emergence of humour.

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About the Author

Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard teaches French and Francophone literatures at the University of Montréal and the University of Ottawa, Canada.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1501356550
ISBN 13 
9781501356551
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
204