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... significantly, unlike other Eintänzer of the time, Wilder emerges as a self-conscious commodity, who uses self-irony, suspenseful humor, and dramatic irony to offer a look into a culturally charged form of male employment whose suggestive sexuality and inventive gender practices were characteristic...

... scholars have done,5 confi rm Adorno’s indictment of humor as a will to failure (AT, 16), as a loathsome accomplice of the culture industry? Or can this cliché of Adorno as an overly serious thinker with no taste for humor actually point to a more subtle interpretation of how Adorno undermines...

... of satire (with an eye to Heartfield’s photo- montages), we can further complicate this dialectical image by adding a sec- ond axis between humor and prejudice. We can then plot these axes as a field that reveals the inner structure of satirical images. On the horizontal axis, astonishment produces...

..., however, is key to understanding both how this polarity could be used as a critical strategy and how Friedländer synthesizes art and philosophy. By presenting combinations of tragedy and humor in “A Child’s Heroic Deed,” Friedländer seeks to force readers to refl ect on the acculturated quotidian...

... amount of time required to sit through one of his works. © 2016 by New German Critique, Inc. 2016 opera Richard Wagner humor culture industry satire critique References Adorno Theodor W. 1929 . “Berliner Opernmemorial.” In Gesammelte Schriften , edited by Tiedemann...

... delights with his capacity for amazement and with his irreverence. Nothing is automatically sacred, but his humor, while aggressive against closure, complacency, and piety, also reveals his profound humanity, his love of quirkiness, his embrace of absurdity, and his appreciation of our various limitations...

... power, and crumbles the ground from under me” (AGL, 10). 34. This is all very much in jest, of course. Khider’s humor obfuscates the dangers faced by Iraqi writers under Hussein’s dictatorship, during which many fled the country and had to make a choice of language and thus of the audience...

... at Hampshire College in 1973, he was urged to look up a close friend who was teaching at UMass. Andy did so, and shortly thereafter the response of this friend in reference to Andy was twofold: “Gosh, what a great guy and what a fabulous sense of humor.” And then came the sentence: “This is another order...

... humor” (“Fetish- Character,” 297). Adorno sees such an aspect taking form in the Marx Broth- ers’ musical comedies: This experience was caught with great force in a fi lm by the Marx brothers, who demolish an opera set as if to clothe in allegory the insight of the phi- losophy...

... seemingly purged their parents’ failings; and Ines’s generation, which has lost that moral compass, that sense of the common good, that sense of belonging.” 15. On what it means for humor to be a “comedy of recognition,” see Critchley, On Humour , 11 . 14. Berg, Freuds Psychoanalyse , 54...

... of this special issue who shepherded the articles to completion (Sven-Erik), we thank the contributors for their intellectual companionship, exceptional engagement, and humor. Introduction David Bathrick and Sven-Erik Rose A significant cultural and political development...

... dedicated to entertainment and his own special brand of scattershot, at times even mer- ciless, humor—in this case, not much tougher on the Germans than it was on the Allies. In the so-called Wilder Memorandum of August 1945, written for the Film and Theater Music Branch of the Information Control...

... and words of praise seriously, and remem- bered them, and mulled them over for years to come. She was strong in her opinions. She had a sense of humor. She was playful and reserved, both at once. She was self-aware; it helped her through her illness. She told the truth, and accepted it herself...

... at the end of the film. Despite the parallels noted so far, Careful radically differs from traditional mountain films in many respects. Unlike them, it is full of absurd humor, as should already be clear from the summary of the plot and introduction to Maddin’s style above; my discussion of his...

... are the way they are. Irony, or a kind of (re)conciliatory humor, kicks in when reality and expectations (or, more specifically, data and facts and their distortion by political rhetoric) collide, and we discover that established stereotypes and assumptions do not correspond to brute real- ity. Koeppen...

... . Morgenstern Christian . Palmström . Berlin : Cassirer , 1920 . 3. The quotation is from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s 1844 critique of Young Hegelian thought, The Holy Family . See Marx and Engels, Holy Family , 81 . 2. Enzensberger is referring to Christian Morgenstern’s humorous...

... subtle humor occasionally softens the blow, as seen in the portrayal of the sly artistic director Walz, whose actual counterpart in Anklam, as Matussek had pointed out, was firmly in bed with the ruling party. 52 In comparison, Dresen’s unmasking of Walz remains comparatively friendly, as his actions...

..., and the mathematician and astronomer Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, a monkish explorer in the monastery of his own mind, in a lucid por- trayal laced with subtle humor. Indeed, the inconceivable success of Die Vermessung der Welt appears to have touched a nerve in the current zeitgeist. It seems...

... dialogue between Aesop and his animals. Their humor intends to cause exactly the kind of laughter that overcame the bystander in the fable, interrupting the theory caused by a fable. By using the characters from the fable universe as interlocutors, Blumenberg demonstrates how a cascade of fables could...

..., satirical literature qualifies as a form of realism ( ER , 95). Like the realist literary work, the genre strives to adequately represent the contradictions of society. Satire is not, however, primarily associated with humor and wit, which to us may seem like a surprising, or even mistaken, characterization...