...Jeroen Vandaele In humor studies, incongruity and superiority are traditionally regarded as two independent concepts. Taken separately, each concept both under- and over-determines the field of humorous phenomena. When redefined, incongruity and superiority do not represent incompatible views...

...Jeroen Vandaele This is part II of a two-part essay on narrative humor. Part I appeared in Poetics Today 31:4; it explained Wright’s (2005) idea that both humor and narrative require audiences/readers to switch between “intentional perspectives,” that is, between the cognitive-emotive states...

... the needs of broadcast and cable networks and later subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) platforms. These content creators adapted traditional motifs of Jewish humor by infusing their work with contemporary, popular feminist sensibilities and applying narrative tactics specific to digital technology...

...Jeroen Vandaele What is narrative humor? With this question in mind, my essay (in two parts) reviews several studies of narrative and humor. Part 1 discusses Edmond Wright (2005), who argues that both humor and narrative crucially require audiences or readers to switch between “intentional...

... of verbal humor, such as jokes. Here I look into incongruity-resolution theories of humor and certain linguistically based accounts of joking as well as the insights provided by Sperber and Wilson's theory of relevance into the type of pragmatic processing attendant on the appreciation of humor. Jokes...

...J. Martin Daughtry Magnitizdat was the slyly humorous nickname for the unofficial practice of dubbing and distributing reel-to-reel audio tapes in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union. In this article I reflect on magnitizdat's cultural significance through an examination of several amateur reel-to-reel...

... enjoying extraordinary popularity in the major urban centers of North America, new dialects of spoken and written Yiddish came into being there: this new vocal strain ranged from Yiddish humor magazines to the Yiddish American polyphony of Jacob Glatstein's Yidishtaytshn ( Yiddishmeanings ; 1937). After...

..., and other humorous meanings that literary recipes often seem to produce, which is linked to the operational and structural dimensions of the recipe—its comically posited procedural form. References Adamson Melitta Weiss . 1995 . “ The Games Cooks Play: Non-Sense Recipes and Practical Jokes...

... and twentieth centuries. In 2009, he founded the Research Network Fictionality. Jeroen Vandaele is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Oslo. He has written on the poetics of humor (e.g., “Humor Mechanisms in Film Comedy: Incon- gruity and Superiority”) and on the politics of humor...

... of Oslo. He has written on the poetics of humor (for example, “Humor Mechanisms in Film Com- edy: Incongruity and Superiority”) and on the politics of humor in Francoist times— with a focus on Francoist translations of Billy Wilder’s oeuvre. He coedited, with Geert Brône, the volume Cognitive...

... ). Fernández-Santiago Miriam n.d. “The Popular Sources of Unpopular Genius: E. A. Poe and R. Browning.” Unpublished manuscript . 2005 The Voice and the Void: On Humor and Postmodernity ( Huelva : University of Huelva Press ). Goodwin Peter J. 2011 “The Man in the Text: Desire...

... language at the Faculty of Edu- cation in Ourense (University of Vigo). Her work includes articles in English and Spanish on various aspects of humor and humorous fiction. Daniel Punday is an associate professor of English at Purdue University, Calumet. He is the author of Narrative after Deconstruction...

... prepared to put up with seeming chaos and confusion, since so much of the humor derives from misunderstandings. Another reason is that we may be more concerned with the characters as an ensemble, rather than empathizing with specific individuals, and are prepared to laugh at everyone in turn...

... Veale’s response article, the idea of figure/ground reversal is interestingly extended to the domain of humor. The third section, “Stance,” brings together three articles on procedures that are meant to express or create various discursive attitudes: humor, dis- tance, and irony. Eleni...

... relations and its effects. In Tony Veale’s response article, the idea of figure/ground reversal is interestingly extended to the domain of humor. The third section, “Stance,” brings together three articles on procedures that are meant to express or create various discursive attitudes: humor, dis...

... Veale’s response article, the idea of figure/ground reversal is interestingly extended to the domain of humor. The third section, “Stance,” brings together three articles on procedures that are meant to express or create various discursive attitudes: humor, dis- tance, and irony. Eleni...

... Narrative Humor (II): Exit Perspective 59 Vesela´, Pavla A Highly Charged Pronoun: “We” in Three September 11 Poems 217 ...

...)Location of Meaning: Selected Papers of the Cetra Research Seminar and is guest editor of a forthcoming spe- cial issue of The Translator on humor translation (scheduled for publication in He is writing a thesis for a Ph.D. on the reception of foreign film comedy in Fran- coist Spain. Robert Rawdon...

... as World Literature; or, The Universality of Writing under Constraint 17 Vandaele, Jeroen Narrative Humor (I): Enter Perspective 721 Vanhaesebrouck, Karel. See Biet, Christian, and Vanhaesebrouck, Karel Reviews Altes, Liesbeth Korthals German...

... in Literature at the Department of Music, Art, and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Since his doctoral dissertation on experimental, procedural, and conceptual writing in Finnish literature (2012), he has taught creative writing and published, among other things, on literary humor, conceptual...