Of clowns and gods, Brahmans and babus : humour in South Asian literatures
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Of clowns and gods, Brahmans and babus : humour in South Asian literatures
（South Asian studies, no. 32）
Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 1999
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In English; some passages in Hindi, Begali, Kannada and Urdu (in Roman)
Includes bibliographical references
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内容説明
Humour as a competence inherent in all human beings defies description and its huge variety, forms and faces have always engendered curiosity. For centuries people have attempted to pinpoint the essence of humour. The contributors to this volume, however, restrict their study of humour to the written and oral literatures of South Asia. They approach the problems not only intuitively, from their own sense of humour, but go beyond that out of a recognition that humour as performance is culture specific and cannot, therefore, always be comprehended on the spot. Several contributors caste their work in various theoretical frameworks, particularly theories of humour. The volume contains a broad spectrum of essays on the subject in modern and pre-modern, in classical and folk, and in written and oral literatures from almost all corners of the subcontinent. They treat the subject from a multitude of perspectives and offer background of different theories of humour. With one exception, the contributions have a common characteristic: they deal with material that has not been explored so far in research.
These empirical studies are, therefore, the first step towards a theoretical analysis of humour in South Asia. The multi-regional coverage of papers opens up potential for comparative research on humour in the literatures and verbal arts of contemporary South Asia.
目次
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction by Claus Peter Zoller and Christina Oesterheld
- From Dingley Dell to Darbhanga: Some Introductory Remarks on the Meaning of (Sense of) Humour by Lothar Lutze
- Deviant Speechplay and Hindi Ideology: A Nexus Suggested by Dietmar Mayan
- Carter and CourtesanThe Ox and the Tigress: Humour in Phanishwarnath Renus Hindi Story The Third Vow by Konrad Meisig
- Humour in the Satsai of Biharilal by Rupert Snell
- Poet who Laughed in Pain: Akbar Ilahabadi by Sadiq-ur-Rahman Kidwai
- Iqbal Inspired Humour: A Note on Parodies by Selected Urdu Poets by Fateh Muhammad Malik
- The Humour of Calcutta by William Radice
- Thomas Manns Transposed Heads and Girish Karnads Hayavadana: An Indian Motif Re-imported by Heidrun Bruckner
- Joking and Laughing in Modern Tamil Literatue by Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi
- Powers of the Timid: Aspects of Humour in the Rajasthani Oral Epic of Devnarayan by Aditya Malik
- My Mother an Apsara, the Father a Ksatriya, my Uncle the Son of a Gandharva: Humour in the Oral Poetry of the Himalaya by Clus Peter Zoller.
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