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Gender and laughter : comic affirmation and subversion in traditional and modern media /
"This essay collection is dedicated to intersections between gender theories and theories of laughter, humour, and comedy. It is based on the results of a three-year research programme, entitled "Gender - Laughter - Media" (2003-2006) and includes a series of investigations on traditi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2009.
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| Colección: | Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik ;
Bd. 70. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminary Material / Gaby Pailer , Andreas Böhn , Stefan Horlacher and Ulrich Scheck
- Introduction / Gaby Pailer
- A Short Introduction to Theories of Humour, the Comic, and Laughter / Stefan Horlacher
- Subversions of Gender Identities through Laughter and the Comic? / Andreas Böhn
- "Kiss a white Galathea, she will laugh and blush": Laughter, Blush, and Gender Roles in Gottfried Keller's Novella Cycle A Formula for Love. The Epigram (1881) / Jessica Hamann
- "A comic turn, turned serious": Humour, Body Modification, and the Natural in Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She Devil / Beth Pentney
- "From now on, I am Carmen": Imagining Cross-Dressing as Comic Protest in the Life and Work of Romanian-German Author Franz Hodjak / Raluca Cernahoschi
- Where No Woman Has Gone Before: Humour and Gender Crossing in Star Trek's Voyager and Enterprise / Ulrich Scheck
- "To be educated is to become a Harlequin": Cross-Skinning as Carnivalesque Hybridity in Michel Serres, Hannah Höch's Dada, and Orlan's Body Art / Markus Hallensleben
- Multi-Layered Conflicts with the Norm: Gender and Cultural Diversity in Two Comedies of the German Enlightenment / Gaby Pailer
- Indigenous Laughter: The Voice of the Other in Tales from the "South Seas" / Sabine Wilke
- Subverting the Pantragic Heroine: Nestroy against Hebbel / Gabrijela Mecky Zaragoza
- Black and White in Color or Black Victory? The Comic Effect of Displacement in the Film Noirs et blancs en couleur (1976) by Jean-Jacques Annaud / Jakub Kazecki
- The City as Stage of Transgression: Performance, Picaresque Reminiscences, and Linguistic Incongruity in Emine S. Özdamar's The Bridge of the Golden Horn / Karin Lornsen
- Moral Ideal and Physical Desire: Gender Roles, Sex, and Comic Elements in the Rococo Tales of Christoph Martin Wieland / Andreas Seidler
- Social Satire, Literary Parody, and Gender Critique in French and German Fairy Tales of the Enlightenment: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friederike Helene Unger / Birte Giesler
- "But I'm a Lady!" Undoing Gender Bending in Contemporary British Radio Comedy / Ellie Kennedy
- Mockumentalism: Re-Casting the Void in Contemporary British TV Comedy / Stear Peter
- Couples and Friends: Comic Strategies and Social Structures in German and American Comedy Series / Christine Mielke
- Affirmative Humour in Bully Herbig's Parody of Star Wars/Star Trek: (T)Raumschiff Surprise / Frank Degler
- May I Laugh about Women's Lib? or: The Difficult Relationship of Humour and Feminism in Margaret Atwood, Caryl Churchill, and Helen Fielding / Susanne Bach
- Aletheia as Striptease: Gendered Allegories of Truth in Heidegger, Gorgias, and Barthes / Stefan Börnchen
- Judith Butler and the Problem of Adequacy, or: The Epistemological Dimension of Laughter / Volker Helbig
- Comparing Same-Gender and Opposite-Gender Conversations: a Laughing Matter? / Caroline L. Rieger
- The Joy of Anti-Art: Subversion through Humour in Dada / Oliver C. Speck
- List of Contributors / Gaby Pailer , Andreas Böhn , Stefan Horlacher and Ulrich Scheck.