The Humour-Pathos Link from Late-Victorian Aestheticism to Modernism and After in British Literature

By using Freud’s theory of humour (1927) and his Jokes in their relation to the unconscious (1905), we follow the dominant features of the humour-pathos nexus from the late Victorian to the postmodernist literary decadence, taking in our stride the two peaking twentieth century modernist texts publi...

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Main Author: Ioana Zirra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bucharest University Press 2023-10-01
Series:University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series
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Online Access:https://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/UBR1_Zirra.pdf