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Humour and Laughter in History : Transcultural Perspectives / Elisabeth Cheauré, Regine Nohejl.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen/History in Popular Cultures ; 15Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1. AuflDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783839428580
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 900
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Editorial -- Contents -- Introduction / Cheauré, Elisabeth / Nohejl, Regine -- Napoleon and the 1812 Patriotic War in Russian Humour / Cheauré, Elisabeth -- Alfred and Friedrich Alfred Krupp as the Butt of Jokes? / Heimsoth, Axel -- Letting Loose the Doggerel of War / Milne, Lesley -- Poignant Past. How Interwar Satirical Magazines in Germany, France and Spain Used History to Criticise Their Times / Reichstetter, Louisa -- More than Resistance: Political Humour Under Stalin in the 1930s / Waterlow, Jonathan -- »Then We Will Fight in the Shade« / Feickert, Sabrina -- Authors and Editors
Title is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014Title is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE History 2014Title is part of eBook package: transcript Complete Package 2014-2015Title is part of eBook package: transcript eBook Package English Backlist 2000-2015Summary: Humour can be used as a »weapon« or as a means of coping with problematic historical events, especially in times of war and crisis. The book presents examples from different cultures (Russia, Europe, USA), from different historical epochs (from the Napoleonic era up to the current time) and from different medias (caricature, journalism, film).By looking at the individual cases it becomes possible to recognize some general structural patterns and to gain a deeper insight into the »functioning« of humour and laughter.
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Frontmatter -- Editorial -- Contents -- Introduction / Cheauré, Elisabeth / Nohejl, Regine -- Napoleon and the 1812 Patriotic War in Russian Humour / Cheauré, Elisabeth -- Alfred and Friedrich Alfred Krupp as the Butt of Jokes? / Heimsoth, Axel -- Letting Loose the Doggerel of War / Milne, Lesley -- Poignant Past. How Interwar Satirical Magazines in Germany, France and Spain Used History to Criticise Their Times / Reichstetter, Louisa -- More than Resistance: Political Humour Under Stalin in the 1930s / Waterlow, Jonathan -- »Then We Will Fight in the Shade« / Feickert, Sabrina -- Authors and Editors

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Humour can be used as a »weapon« or as a means of coping with problematic historical events, especially in times of war and crisis. The book presents examples from different cultures (Russia, Europe, USA), from different historical epochs (from the Napoleonic era up to the current time) and from different medias (caricature, journalism, film).By looking at the individual cases it becomes possible to recognize some general structural patterns and to gain a deeper insight into the »functioning« of humour and laughter.

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