Framing Literary Humour Cells Masks And Bodies As 20thcentury Sites Of Imprisonment Jeanne Mathieulessard by Jeanne Mathieu-lessard 9781501356551, 9781501356582, 1501356550, 1501356585 instant download after payment.

Contrary to what their oppressive design could lead us to believe, might structures of imprisonment actually incite humour, itself a form of liberation? Starting from the most obvious areas of imprisonment (war camps, prison cells) and moving to the less obvious (masks, bodies), Framing Literary Humour demonstrates how 20th-century humour in theory and in fiction cannot be fully understood without a careful look at its connection with the notion of imprisonment.
Understanding imprisonment as a concrete spatial setting or a metaphorical image, Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard analyses selected works of Romain Gary, Giovannino Guareschi, Wyndham Lewis, Vladimir Nabokov and Luigi Pirandello to reconfigure confinement as an essential structural condition for the emergence of humour.