Made-in-Canada Humour

Literary, folk and popular culture

Beverly J. Rasporich (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

300 Seiten

2015
John Benjamins Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-90-272-0230-7 (ISBN)

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Made-in-Canada-Humour is an interdisciplinary survey and analysis of Canadian humour and humorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book focuses on a variety of genres. It includes celebrated Canadian writers and poets with ironic and satiric perspectives; oral storytellers of tall tales in the country and the city; newspaper print humorists; representative national and regional cartoonists; and comedians of stage, radio and television. The humour gives voice to Canadian values and experiences, and consequently, techniques and styles of humour particular to the country. While a persistent comic theme has been joking at the expense of the United States, both countries have influenced one another’s humour. Canada’s unique humorous tradition also reflects its emergence from a colonial country to a postcolonial and postmodern nation with contemporary humour that addresses gender and racial issues.

1. Acknowledgements; 2. List of illustrations; 3. Foreword; 4. 1. Antique humour: New Eden dreamers and Sam Slick; 5. 2. Canada's remarkable humorist Stephen Leacock (1869-1944): Bridging Uncle Sam and Mother England; 6. 3. Folk humour in the country and in the city: The Side Hill Gouger and other myths; 7. 4. 20th century literary humour: Protest and resistance; 8. 5. 20th century print humour and cartoons: Amusing the people and provoking the politicians; 9. 6. Joking at the margins: Ethnicity, race and gender; 10. 7. Popular comedy on stage and in the media: Towards a continental humour; 11. Conclusion; 12. Previous publications; 13. Select references; 14. Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.10.2015
Reihe/Serie	Topics in Humor Research ; 3
Verlagsort	Amsterdam
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	655 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	90-272-0230-3 / 9027202303
ISBN-13	978-90-272-0230-7 / 9789027202307
Zustand	Neuware