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The Boundaries of Funniness and the Dilution of Audience Identity in the Musical-Dramatic Art

open access: yesГалактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований, 2021
This paper sets out to examine the transformation of comedy in the history of European theatre. Musical performance extends the semiotic space of the original genre into a field of fluid and open meanings and signs incorporating and suggesting many ...
Viktor L. Levchenko, Nina I. Kovalova
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Peirce’s semiotic approach to irony [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
As someone famously said, irony is usually regarded as “saying what you mean without meaning what you say. ”But how exactly this can be achieved is not easy to answer. More precisely, this characterization applies to verbal irony.
Vargas, Evelyn Teresita
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Revealing the Layers of the Duke’s Mind: Elements of Structure and Language in Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess”

open access: yesUniversity of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2023
This paper explores the intricate layers of the Duke's psyche in Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue "My Last Duchess" through a detailed analysis of the poem's structure and language.
Nasir Jamal Khattak
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Posthumain et réception, de The Tempest à Westworld

open access: yesTV Series, 2018
In TV fiction, the character is a surrogate for the viewer ; through identification, the viewer is immersed in the fictional universe and experiences it as the character does.
Delphine Lemonnier-Texier
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Humorous phenomena in dramatic discourse

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2013
The paramount goal of this paper is to tease out a number of universal communicative phenomena which carry humour appreciated by the recipient of a drama series, based on data culled from a famous medical drama series, “House”.
Marta Dynel
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History as Story and Parody in Julian Barnes’s the Noise of Time

open access: yesRomanian Journal of English Studies, 2019
This article analyses Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time, a postmodernist parody of the Russian communist world, and shows that historical truth is turned into a story which is remembered with bitter irony and which offers various interpretations.
Catană Elisabeta Simona
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Humor as a Part of Interpersonal Communication

open access: yesJournal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, 2017
The article deals with the description and analysis of humor, irony, sarcasm in our life. Different points of view on humor are presented. Theories of the origin of humor (relief, incongruity, superiority) are described.
Hanna Karpenko
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Ironic remarks in Divan of Naser Khosrow and works of schlegel brothers [PDF]

open access: yesادبیات تطبیقی, 2020
1.Introduction Iran and Germany are two countries with fruitful history and traditions in literature and philosophy, but there are not enough works in the field of comparative study between the works of their thinkers and poets. In this study, some works
Ehsan Koosha   +2 more
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BABY SWAP AS DRAMATIC IRONY: A PLOT TECHNIQUE IN ONYEKAONWU’S ERIRI MAARA NGWUGWU

open access: yes, 2023
This study explores how dramatic irony is used by the playwright to reveal to the readers or audience the ignorance of a character who acts in a way recognized as a grave mistake in Eriri Mara Ngwugwu.
Okoye Chibuzo Daniel
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Die dramatiese discours in Pas de deux van Hugo Claus

open access: yesLiterator, 1990
Drama is action, verbal drama is speech action, and the dramatic text is subject to a similar set of rules as that governing the extra-literary communication situation.
R. Vaughan
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