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Items for "Incongruity"

Incongruity in humor: Root cause or epiphenomenon?

Humor and incongruity appear to be constant bedfellows, for at the heart of every joke one can point to some degree of absurdity, illogicality, or violation of expectation...

Keywords: Incongruity, resolution, semantic opposition, collaboration, opportunistic interpretation, SSTH, GTVH

09/2004 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter
Comedy theory and the postmodern

The “comic” and the “ironic” have been embraced by certain strands of contemporary literary theory as ambiguous, self-reflexive modes of expression that are particularly appropriate to the crisis of representation which characterizes the postmodern mood...

Keywords: Comedy theory, Incongruity, irony, postmodernism, the absurd, theories of creativity

02/2006 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter