Strategies of Humor in Post-Unification German Literature, Film, and Other Media
ISBN: 9781443827812
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Literature;

The fourteen chapters in this anthology feature original analyses of contemporary German-language literary texts, films, political cartoons, cabaret, and other types of performance. The artworks display a wide spectrum of humor modes, such as irony, satire, the grotesque, Jewish humor, and slapstick, as responses to unification Other the accompanying euphoria, but also alienation and dislocation. Kerstin HenselOCOs Lnrchenau, Christoph HeinOCOs Landnahme, and vignette collections by Jakob Hein (An...


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