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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Language: | English |
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Bucharest University Press
2023-10-01
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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 |