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The Boundaries of Funniness and the Dilution of Audience Identity in the Musical-Dramatic Art
Галактика 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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University 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
TV 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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BABY SWAP AS DRAMATIC IRONY: A PLOT TECHNIQUE IN ONYEKAONWU’S ERIRI MAARA NGWUGWU
, 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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Irony and Sarcasm in Ethical Perspective
Open Philosophy, 2020 Irony and sarcasm are two quite different, sometimes morally dubious, linguistic tropes. We can draw a distinction between them if we identify irony as a speech act that calls what is bad good and, correspondingly, sarcasm calls good bad.
Airaksinen Timo
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History as Story and Parody in Julian Barnes’s the Noise of Time
Romanian 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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The Originality of Humor in New Sincerity Novels [PDF]
Studia LitterarumThe article presents a brief history and provides an overview of the well-known movement in English-language literature, which manifested itself in the 1990s and became known as “New Sincerity.” The author of the article gives various opinions regarding ...
Artem S. Kulagin
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On verbal and situational irony
, 2021 This chapter treats the notion of ironic echo as subsidiary to the broader notion of epistemic scenario, which applies to both verbal and situational irony.
Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José [0000-0002-1200-2850] +3 more
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Humor as a Part of Interpersonal Communication
Journal 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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Humorous phenomena in dramatic discourse
The 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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