... of sensory input, and modifies it, using ideas that belong to comic theory and to seventeenth-century philosophies of the passions. His literary criticism thus reveals the way the self depicted in Jonsonian comedy, driven historically by the humors, gives way to a new, imitative model of the self driven more...

...- 11. Much of the recent optimism about the political potential of satire can be traced to the general tendency in media and communication studies to conflate satire with comedy and humor. Ralph Rosen (2012: 2, 5), for example, refers to satire as a form of comedy and suggests that humor...

... : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1975 . Cadden Mike . “‘ Hey, I Get It!’ Parody in Children’s Literature .” Five Owls 18.4 ( 2006 ): 86 - 9l . Cart Michael . What’s So Funny? Wit and Humor in American Children’s Literature . New York : HarperCollins , 1995 . Chapman Antony J...

... : Oxford UP , 1964 . Mast Gerald . The Comic Mind: Comedy at the Movies . Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill , 1973 . Morning Ann . `` The Racial Self-Identification of South Asians in the United States .'' Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 27.1 ( 2001 ): 61 - 79 . Murphy...

...Peter Buse This article examines the place of film comedy in Jacques Lacan's psychoanalysis. It takes as its starting point Lacan's most extensive consideration of a single film, the comedy Never on Sunday (1960), directed by Jules Dassin and set in the Greek port of Piraeus. It places Lacan's...

... as well as his ability to react productively to unexpected responses. The hero of these talks, however, is Vizenor, whose answers are consistently eloquent and illuminating. At times he recounts tricky stories from his novels and personal life with brilliant humor, while at others he plays...

... as well as his ability to react productively to unexpected responses. The hero of these talks, however, is Vizenor, whose answers are consistently eloquent and illuminating. At times he recounts tricky stories from his novels and personal life with brilliant humor, while at others he plays...

... of these talks, however, is Vizenor, whose answers are consistently eloquent and illuminating. At times he recounts tricky stories from his novels and personal life with brilliant humor, while at others he plays trickster by evading questions that might lead to terminal creeds or "indian victimry...

... of these talks, however, is Vizenor, whose answers are consistently eloquent and illuminating. At times he recounts tricky stories from his novels and personal life with brilliant humor, while at others he plays trickster by evading questions that might lead to terminal creeds or "indian victimry...

... of women’s ‘humor’ — rather than sat- ire.” While there are several significant studies of women’s humor, virtually none exists on female satire, and the titles of the handful of critical articles discussing individual female satirists often link it to comedy or humor, as if hoping thereby to deprive...

... of a mood or attitude. What is being said, and by whom, is less important than the manner in which one is speaking, and the atmosphere created. Pritchett's concise and insightful characterization of Firbank's novels aptly describes Theocritus' Idyls as well, "The comedy is in the inconsequence...

... to the banks of the Thames. I’ll make a big pile. I’ll douse them in petrol, and I’ll burn them. If it appeals to your sense of humor, you are invited to the burning. And speaking of humor, in addition to quizzing Negri on the commons, I went to Venice with a notion to give myself a little present...

..., in front of a moose, keeps the humor of the series central. Many moments of drama seem to be undercut by humor or excess dramatiza- tion. In either case, what suffers is the genuine content of the subject being pre- sented — in this case, drug abuse. It takes until the end of season three...

... of I Corinthians. Paul himself may show the serious face of Trickster, but it may be possible that Luke took Paul less seriously, and in fact paints a somewhat humorous picture of Paul. I will start with Paul's letters, dealing with them in chronological order, at least as far...

... to this particular vanquished line? At the turn of the century, Henri Bergson's ([1911] 1935 : 49) Laughter proposed that humor arises as a remedial response to the “mechanical encrusted upon the human,” which in this case we might locate as “an effect of automatism and of inelasticity” (18) in the perfunctory...

... . Directed by Simon Adam . Rome : Minerva Pictures . Army of Darkness . 1992 . Directed by Raimi Sam . Universal City, CA : Dino De Laurentiis Communications . Badley Linda . 2008 . “Zombie Splatter Comedy from Dawn to Shaun: Cannibal Carnivalesque.” In Zombie Culture...

... young, technologically adept men.8 In anime, they found a wide range of genres, from serious artistic films through romantic comedy, science fiction, and children's 5Translation and Subjectivity: On "Japan" and Cultural Nationalism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997) 1...

... various kinds of genre membership. 188 GENRE after. The sentimental novel grew out of comedy with Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield (1766). In the 1790s Jane Austen also parodied the romances of her day, specifically Anne Radcliffe's gothics, and produced her comic...

... this aspect of my job here or elsewhere. Frye's notions of literature as a coherent closed system rooted in universal archetypes and of the famous four mythoi (romance, tragedy, irony, comedy) constituting a central unifying quest-myth have the oppressive effect of reducing individual works, genres...

.../trout/kt_chapman.html > . Collingwood R. G. The Principles of Art . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1938 . Davis Ray . “ Losing It: A Vertigo Restoration Comedy .” Pseudopodium.org , 1998 . Web . 23 Aug. 2009 . Delany Samuel R. “ Letter to a Critic: Popular...