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245 10 a| Framing literary humourh| [electronic resource] :b| cells, masks and bodies as 20th-century sites of imprisonment /c| Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard.;

260 a| New York :b| Bloomsbury Academic,c| 2020.;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Humour and imprisonment -- Humour in the cell: prison cells and war camps -- Social entrapment: humoristic characters vs. the world -- Humour in the cells: configurations of the body as prison -- Conclusion: a geometry of humour;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "Contrary to their oppressive design, might structures of imprisonment actually incite humour, itself a form of liberation? Starting from the most obvious cases of imprisonment (war camps, prison cells) and moving to the less obvious (masks, bodies), Containing 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 analyzes 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"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Framing literary humour cells, masks and bodies as 20th-century sites of imprisonment / Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard.

Author/creator	Mathieu-Lessard, Jeanne
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Description	1 online resource
Supplemental Content	Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects	Literature, Modern--20th century. --History and criticism. Wit and humor--History and criticism. Humor in literature. Imprisonment in literature.

Contents	Humour and imprisonment -- Humour in the cell: prison cells and war camps -- Social entrapment: humoristic characters vs. the world -- Humour in the cells: configurations of the body as prison -- Conclusion: a geometry of humour
Abstract	"Contrary to their oppressive design, might structures of imprisonment actually incite humour, itself a form of liberation? Starting from the most obvious cases of imprisonment (war camps, prison cells) and moving to the less obvious (masks, bodies), Containing 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 analyzes 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Source of description	Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Issued in other form	Print version: Mathieu-Lessard, Jeanne. Framing literary humour New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 9781501356551
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2019026044
ISBN	9781501356575 (pdf)
ISBN	9781501356568 (epub)
ISBN	(hardback)

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