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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| description | 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 published by T.S. Eliot and James Joyce in 1922 Britain. We begin with Oscar Wilde’s popular The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) in relation to Walter Pater’s less well-known autobiographical novel Marius the Epicurean (1885), showing what relation the latter has with T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and James Joyce’s Ulysses. The modernist genial humour of Eliot’s 1939 Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats is contrasted with Tom Stoppard’s in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) and with the dark humour closer to pathos in The Life and Songs of the Crow (1970) by Ted Hughes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5938a7637de740129e59d77e35442d082023-12-03T10:00:29ZengBucharest University PressUniversity of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series2069-86582734-59632023-10-011315265The Humour-Pathos Link from Late-Victorian Aestheticism to Modernism and After in British LiteratureIoana Zirra0University of Bucharest, RomaniaBy 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 published by T.S. Eliot and James Joyce in 1922 Britain. We begin with Oscar Wilde’s popular The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) in relation to Walter Pater’s less well-known autobiographical novel Marius the Epicurean (1885), showing what relation the latter has with T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and James Joyce’s Ulysses. The modernist genial humour of Eliot’s 1939 Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats is contrasted with Tom Stoppard’s in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) and with the dark humour closer to pathos in The Life and Songs of the Crow (1970) by Ted Hughes.https://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/UBR1_Zirra.pdfaestheticismpathoshedonemodernismpostmodernismpure humoursatirical humourabsurdismoscar wildethomas beckett |
| spellingShingle | Ioana Zirra The Humour-Pathos Link from Late-Victorian Aestheticism to Modernism and After in British Literature University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series aestheticism pathos hedone modernism postmodernism pure humour satirical humour absurdism oscar wilde thomas beckett |
| title | The Humour-Pathos Link from Late-Victorian Aestheticism to Modernism and After in British Literature |
| title_full | The Humour-Pathos Link from Late-Victorian Aestheticism to Modernism and After in British Literature |
| title_fullStr | The Humour-Pathos Link from Late-Victorian Aestheticism to Modernism and After in British Literature |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Humour-Pathos Link from Late-Victorian Aestheticism to Modernism and After in British Literature |
| title_short | The Humour-Pathos Link from Late-Victorian Aestheticism to Modernism and After in British Literature |
| title_sort | humour pathos link from late victorian aestheticism to modernism and after in british literature |
| topic | aestheticism pathos hedone modernism postmodernism pure humour satirical humour absurdism oscar wilde thomas beckett |
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