Carine Giovénal, Du bestournement au renouvellement. La construction du personnage chez Raoul de Houdenc (xiiie siècle) by Carine Giovénal

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О интерсемиотической передаче комического в аудиодескрипции к советским кинокомедиям by Maria Mocarz-Kleindienst

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Dandiacal Conversation in Oscar Wilde’s Comedies of Manners: Conventions, Conversions and Reconfigurations of Phallogocentrism by Gilbert Pham-Thanh

“…Wilde’s comedies of manners stage dandies enjoying relative freedom in the parlours, ballrooms and reception halls where the scenes usually take place. …”
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Femininity, Humor, and TV Comedies: The Wit of Fran Fine, Lorelai Gilmore, and Mrs. Maisel by Aileen Behrendt

“…Women and wit seem to belong together in contemporary TV comedies. But looking more closely at wit reveals that it has undergone a series of transformations in its cultural value as a type of humor, its moral implications, and its meaning. …”
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Bed-trick and forced marriages. Shakespeare’s distortion of romantic comedy motifs in Measure for Measure by Frédérique Fouassier

“…One of the most blatant consequences of the distortion of romantic comedy motifs in Measure for Measure is the disempowerment of female characters: at the conclusion of the play, they are violently levelled out, at the lowest possible level: they all become Kate Keepdowns.…”
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Beyond the Male Stereotype: Complicating Female Geek and Nerd Figures in Contemporary US Comedy Series by Ankita Dolai

“…This article aims to highlight the emergence of engaging and relatable female nerds and geeks that subvert the stereotypes associated with such figures in comedy TV series and sitcoms. Humour in these comedy series exposes the silliness of perceived stereotypes associated with geekdom and “othered” cultures, while at the same time questioning and resisting them through complex female characterization. …”
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La divine comédie dans les Andes ou les tribulations du mort dans son voyage vers l’au-delà by Valérie Robin Azevedo

“…The Andean divine comedy or the tribulations of the soul in its voyage to the hereafter. …”
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Representing Irishness in Words and Images ; Erskine Nicol’s Illustrations of Tales of Irish Life and Character by Amélie Dochy

“…We will also dwell on the mechanisms of humour in both the text and the paintings and examine how, by resorting to comedy verging on caricature, Nicol creates characters who were deemed as “typical” by the Victorian public while offering a subjective definition of Irish identity.…”
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Юмористический тон как маркер авторского взгляда в комедиях Надежды Птушкиной by Natalia Maliutina

“…Distinguishing between the manifestations of situational and semantic comedy and humour the article shows how the humorous tone of the character’s remarks changes the overall genre tone of the comedy. …”
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A Critique of Exaggerated Libertinism in Thomas Shadwell’s The Libertine by Şafak Horzum

“…Secondly, it will set out to explore the play’s position in terms of its exemplary nature in the genre of comedy of manners. Last but not least, libertinism and its characteristics will be analysed through their illustration in the play by means of male characters, particularly Don John, the protagonist. …”
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Réflexions sur Der Schwierige d’Hugo von Hofmannsthal by Pauline Belvèze

“…This contribution attempts to give a new interpretation of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s comedy Der Schwierige. The analysis of the main character’s distrust towards language reveals his inner contradictions. …”
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Reading “Guillelme l’Amïable”: Hypertextuality and La Prise d’Orange by Lucas Wood

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alchimia dall’inferno al paradiso nella divina commedia. l’influsso su dante dell’opera alchemica aurora consurgens, parzialmente attribuita a san tommaso d’aquino by Marino Alberto Balducci

“…The symbolic vision of a terrible epidemic, affecting the deep infernal zones, appears in the Divine Comedy associated with the wrong, fraudulent, and arrogant use of alchemical science (Inf. …”
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THE GROTESQUENESS IN VIETNAMESE FOLK JOKES by Quoc Minh Duong Dang

“… Grotesqueness exploits laughter, exaggeration, and unusual contrasts between the imaginary and the real, beauty and ugliness, tragedy and comedy. Grotesqueness is prevalent in folk jokes, especially in tales about gluttony, henpecked husbands, and sexual desire. …”
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“There she was, looking at me with those eyes of her”: l’animal mis en regard dans le théâtre d’Edward Albee by Valentine Vasak

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Multimodal Adaptation, Reconstruction, and Deviation of Immortal Ones by Xinzuo Li

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Women in Trouble: Much Ado About Nothing, Pride & Prejudice and Bridget Jones’s Diary by Franziska Quabeck

“…This is due to an inextricable bond between gender and comedy that targets the audience’s expectations of normative femininity. …”
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Newman’s Poetry: The Heart of a Victorian Renaissance Project  by Dampi Somoko

“…This is particularly true of the poetic dream in The Dream of Gerontius, which borrows characteristics from both the anonymous Old English poem The Dream of the Rood and Dante’s Divine Comedy. This creative recourse to old literary and aesthetic sources as an inspiration is marked by porosity, hybridity, and subversion when the mutation of the character takes place in a gradual process from de-personification to kenosis. …”
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“When the bear won't go hunt”: masculinity in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night by Jean-Louis CLARET

“…The haunting figures of Narcissus and Echo find a strange echo in the main characters who prove particularly resilient and clearly subservient to the structural requirements of the comedy. …”
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Real Person Fanfiction and the Construction of the (Un)Ethical Fan by Lauren Balser

“…Though RPF remains a staple of fandom, the fans that write and read it are often moralised for their alleged misunderstanding of what constitutes a fictional character. Consequently, much of RPF studies focuses on fans’ construction of the celebrity persona. …”
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