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Bruno Dumont's comic look
Published 2016“…Drawing on texts by Henri Bergson and Wolfgang Iser, the article frst attempts to defne the specifcity of what shall be called Dumont’s comic look. Next, it analyses what it means to take a comic look at socio-political problems such as religious and racial conficts. …”
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Comical moments and comical characterisations in Tobit: the undermining of self-righteous piety, simplistic retribution, and limited Yahwism
Published 2022“…This article argues that comic moments and comic characterisation are used in Tobit as a means of satirically exposing a type of Yahwism characterised by inward-looking piety, religious and ethnic endogamy, and simplistic notions of retribution. …”
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Social Psychology and the Comic-Book Superhero: A Darwinian Approach
Published 2013“…Why is the comic-book superhero such a persistent topic of cultural representation? …”
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Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage (COMICS): fieldwork, synthesis and modelling efforts
Published 2016“…The Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage (COMICS) programme will deliver new insights into the processes of carbon cycling in the mesopelagic zone and how these influence ocean carbon storage. …”
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Prion protein codon 129 polymorphism in mild cognitive impairment and dementia: the Rotterdam Study
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Circulating metabolites are associated with brain atrophy and white matter hyperintensities
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Paracomedy in Euripides’ Bacchae
Published 2019“…By analogy with ‘paratragedy’, the term ‘paracomedy’, introduced in 1995, was established to denote the appropriation of specific comic themes in tragedy. Paratragedy is studied incomparably more than paracomedy, partially due to misconceptions about the latter, such as that comicality destroys the tragic effect, or that to characterize something as comic, it must be hilarious. …”
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Commedia Togata: the Terenzio of Goldoni and the contest for literary authority
Published 2008“…This paper examines the competition for authority between two mid-18th century Italian comic poets - Carlo Goldini and Pietro Chiari - and the importance of this appeal to classical authority. …”
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Manhattan Dynamite and no pancakes: Tradition and normality in the work of Tove Jansson
Published 2018“…When read alongside the books, the comic strips add important aspects and nuances to Jansson’s portrayal of human existence. …”
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"Ele boute son doi en son con...": the question of Anglo-Norman obscenity
Published 2016“… <p>Across the Middle Ages, Continental French texts satirised the French spoken by Englishmen, with particular comic value attached to their alleged tendency unwittingly to use foutre and other obscene terms. …”
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Old comedy and Athenian Power
Published 2024“…My particular focus here is the Athenian empire: how does Old Comedy present Athenian power and what does this comic presentation tell us about how at least some ordinary Athenians understood it? …”
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Not toeing the line: How to read Tristram Shandy
Published 2017“…On the 250th anniversary of the publication of its final volume, the author of this article explores what makes Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy such a landmark in the history of the novel as a form, and advises on how you might read this comic masterpiece.…”
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