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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
Mythic algebra uses: Metaphor, logic, and the semiotic sign

Mythic algebra was developed in a trio of papers in the Journal of Literary Semantics...

Keywords: algebra, irony, logic, metaphor, myth, sign

02/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter