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 GruyterMythic algebra was developed in a trio of papers in the
Keywords: algebra, irony, logic, metaphor, myth, sign
02/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter