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