Framing Literary Humour: Cells, Masks and Bodies as 20th-Century Sites of Imprisonment by Mathieu-Lessard, Jeanne

Framing Literary Humour: Cells, Masks and Bodies as 20th-Century Sites of Imprisonment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781501356551)

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Framing Literary Humour: Cells, Masks and Bodies as 20th-Century Sites of Imprisonment by Mathieu-Lessard, Jeanne

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

$130.00
Framing Literary Humour: Cells, Masks and Bodies as 20th-Century Sites of Imprisonment by Mathieu-Lessard, Jeanne

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

$130.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 Humourdemonstrates 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.

Author: Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard
ISBN-10: 1501356550
ISBN-13: 9781501356551
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2020
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
By Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard
By Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard
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Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard teaches French and Francophone literatures at the University of Montréal and the University of Ottawa, Canada.

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