Ingrid Winterbach's novels especially the latest novels since Die boek van toeval en toeverlaat are characterised by an unconventional sense of humour. Although the comic aspects of her work are frequently referred to, no systematic research of the specific comic aspects of her work has been undertaken to date, despite humour being a striking part of her work. Almost everyone who conducts research on the comical reflects on the issue that any scientific study of humour usually negates the humour of the subject matter. The many divergent attempts to create a theory of humour in literature were split into three useful groups by Perks (2012). Some theories address incongruency, others degradation, and the third group of theories discusses ...
The strong supporting role of humor, satire, and irony in the work of Rainer Maria Rilke has not rec...
Authors do not say what they want to say, but hide it behind the lines. They want the readers to fin...
We tend to take the phenomenon of humour for granted, seeing it for the most part as something innat...
Thesis (M.A.)--Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 2001Humour is regarded as im...
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An analysis of John Steinbeck's humour leads to a better understanding of the author and his career....
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Humour in children’s literature in the tertiary and intermediate phases of language education Humo...
M.A.South Africa is a multiracial and multicultural society, and the diversity of languages reflect ...
The functioning of jokes and the humorous nature of long texts have both been widely dealt with in h...
Jokes are special kinds of texts: they do not communicate something about the real, existing world l...
Humour, depending on the level of comprehension of the audience to which it is directed, may be divi...
The article refers to the phenomenon of laughter present at the chosen writings of Milan Kundera. Ad...
This article explores the enigmatic nature of tricksters in Ingrid Winterbach’s Niggie (Cousin, 2002...
The focus of this dissertation is a comparative study of Ingrid Winterbach's Die boek van toeval en ...
The strong supporting role of humor, satire, and irony in the work of Rainer Maria Rilke has not rec...
Authors do not say what they want to say, but hide it behind the lines. They want the readers to fin...
We tend to take the phenomenon of humour for granted, seeing it for the most part as something innat...
Thesis (M.A.)--Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 2001Humour is regarded as im...
Dit artikel vergelijkt twee gecanoniseerde werken uit de negentiendeeeuw, Herman Melvilles Moby-Dick...
An analysis of John Steinbeck's humour leads to a better understanding of the author and his career....
The author of the present study deals with the wider understanding of humour going back to Hippocrat...
Humour in children’s literature in the tertiary and intermediate phases of language education Humo...
M.A.South Africa is a multiracial and multicultural society, and the diversity of languages reflect ...
The functioning of jokes and the humorous nature of long texts have both been widely dealt with in h...
Jokes are special kinds of texts: they do not communicate something about the real, existing world l...
Humour, depending on the level of comprehension of the audience to which it is directed, may be divi...
The article refers to the phenomenon of laughter present at the chosen writings of Milan Kundera. Ad...
This article explores the enigmatic nature of tricksters in Ingrid Winterbach’s Niggie (Cousin, 2002...
The focus of this dissertation is a comparative study of Ingrid Winterbach's Die boek van toeval en ...
The strong supporting role of humor, satire, and irony in the work of Rainer Maria Rilke has not rec...
Authors do not say what they want to say, but hide it behind the lines. They want the readers to fin...
We tend to take the phenomenon of humour for granted, seeing it for the most part as something innat...