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Techniques of satire : the case of Saltykov-Ščedrin

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What evokes laughter? Why is something funny? As readers, we frequently pose such questions. Literary scholars more often than not, however, try to pass these questions on to their colleagues in other fields--to philosophers, psychologists and sociologists. And yet, the comic in literature possesses its own system of rules and devices, that is to say, the poetics of the comic. Emil Draitser analyses the devices that make literary works funny.  Notions of the comic and of laughter advanced by thinkers as diverse as Bergson, Freud, and Koestler provide the necessary theoretical framework  for his consideration of Saltykov-Shchedrin.  Draitser's book also represents the first monograph in English on this major nineteenth-century satirist
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Year:
1994
Edition:
First Edition
Publisher:
Mouton de Gruyter
Language:
English
Pages:
240
ISBN 10:
3110875926
ISBN 13:
9783110875928
ISBN:
3-11-012624-9,9783110126242,9783110875928,3110875926
Series:
Humor research 2

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