{"product_id":"framing-literary-humour-jeanne-mathieu-lessard-9781501356551","title":"Framing Literary Humour: Cells, Masks and Bodies as 20th-Century Sites of Imprisonment","description":"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), \u003ci\u003eFraming Literary Humour\u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnderstanding 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501356550\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501356551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/23\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47425299087615,"sku":"9781501356551","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6c2e8a48-0e13-4df5-b464-ce1ad9716792.jpg?v=1761538284","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/framing-literary-humour-jeanne-mathieu-lessard-9781501356551","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}