Framing literary humour : cells, masks and bodies as 20th-century sites of imprisonment

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Framing literary humour : cells, masks and bodies as 20th-century sites of imprisonment

Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-192) and index

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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 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 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.

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Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Humour and Imprisonment 2. Humour in the Cell: Prison Cells and War Camps 3. Social Entrapment: Humoristic Characters vs. the World 4. Humour in the Cells: Configurations of the Body as Prison Conclusion: A Geometry of Humour Notes References Index

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