The Palgrave handbook of humour, history, and methodology
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The Palgrave handbook of humour, history, and methodology
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Palgrave Macmillan, c2020
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Handbook of humour, history, and methodology
Humour, history, and methodology
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This handbook addresses the methodological problems and theoretical challenges that arise in attempting to understand and represent humour in specific historical contexts across cultural history. It explores problems involved in applying modern theories of humour to historically-distant contexts of humour and points to the importance of recognising the divergent assumptions made by different academic disciplines when approaching the topic. It explores problems of terminology, identification, classification, subjectivity of viewpoint, and the coherence of the object of study. It addresses specific theories, together with the needs of specific historical case-studies, as well as some of the challenges of presenting historical humour to contemporary audiences through translation and curation. In this way, the handbook aims to encourage a fresh exploration of methodological problems involved in studying the various significances both of the history of humour and of humour in history.
Table of Contents
Part I: Preliminaries: terms and theories
1. Introduction - Daniel Derrin2. The Study of Past Humour: Historicity and the limits of Method- Conal Condren3. No Sense of Humour? 'Humour' Words in Old Norse- Hannah Burrows 4. Rewriting Laughter in Early Modern Europe- Lucy Rayfield5. The Humour of Humours: Comedy Theory and Eighteenth-Century Histories of Emotions- Rebecca Tierney-Hynes 6. Bergson's Theory of the Comic and its Applicability to Sixteenth-Century Japanese Comedy- Jessica Milner Davis 7. Comic Character and Counter-violation: Critiquing Benign Violation Theory- Daniel Derrin 8. Humour and Religion: New Directions?- Richard A. Gardner
Part II: Case studies
9. Visual Humour on Greek Vases (550-350 BC): Three Approaches to the Ambivalence of Ugliness in Popular Culture- Alexandre Mitchell 10. Approaching Jokes and Jestbooks in Premodern China- Giulia Baccini 11. Testing the Limits of Pirandello's Umorismo: a Case Study Based on Xiaolin Guangji- Antonio Leggieri 12. The Monsters that Laugh Back: Humour as a Rhetorical Apophasis in Medieval Monstrology- Rafal Boryslawski 13. Medieval Jokes in Serious Contexts: Speaking Humour to Power- Martha Bayless 14. 'Lightness and Maistrye': Herod, Humour and Temptation in Early English Drama- Jamie Beckett15. Embodied Laughter: Rabelais and the Medical Humanities- Alison Williams16. Naive Parody in Rabelais- John Parkin17. 'By God's Arse': Genre, Humour and Religion in William Wager's Moral Interludes- Lieke Stelling18. Romantic Irony: Problems of Interpretation in Schlegel and Carlyle- Giles Whiteley 19. Unlocking Verbal-Visual Puns in Late-Nineteenth-Century Japanese Cartoons- Ronald Stewart 20. Popular Humour in Nordic Jesting Songs of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Danish Recordings of Oral Song Tradition- Lene Halskov Hansen 21. Spanish Flu: The First Modern Case of Viral Humour?- Nikita Lobanov
Part III: Humour of the Past in the Present
22. Translating Humour in The Song of Roland- John DuVal 23. Intercultural and Interartistic Transfers of Shandean Humour in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries- Yen-Mai Tran-Gervat 24. The Scholars, Chronique indiscrete or Neoficial'naja istorija? The challenge of Translating Eighteenth-century Chinese Irony and Grotesque for Contemporary Western Audiences- Anna Di Toro 25. Putting Humour on Display- Laurence Grove26. Building The Old Joke Archive- Bob Nicholson and Mark Hall
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