Mary Jo Bang’s “Inferno” by Daniela Fargione

“… The multitude of appropriations, transformations, reinterpretations, and rewritings of Dante’s Comedy through a variety of media and cultural productions testifies Dante’s hold on modern imagination. …”
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Denotacja – humor – tabu by Kwiryna Proczkowska

“…Denotation – Humour – Taboo This analysis takes as its subject jokes about Poles that appeared in two US-American sitcoms: The Big Bang Theory (Teoria wielkiego podrywu) and 2 Broke Girls (Dwie spłukane dziewczyny), as well as their official Polish TV translations made for Comedy Central Polska channel. The selected examples refer to Polish traditions, history, and stereotypes about Polish people. …”
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O intertexto canônico em Avalovara Canonical intertext in Avalovara by Sandra Nitrini

“…<br>The canonical intertext Avalovara materializes in this article from the dialogue with Osman Lins's novel with The Divine Comedy, by Dante, Werther, by Goethe, Moby Dick, by Melville, and La Modification, by Butor. …”
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Satirical Frame of Mind: Ken Kalfus’s A Disorder Peculiar to the Country and the Literary Engagement with 9/11 by Katherina Dodou

“…Prompted by debates on the role of comedy in the USA after 9/11, the essay explores the use of satire as one important narrative strategy that emerged in the subgenre of the American 9/11 novel. …”
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Strategi Komunikasi Badan Kependudukan dan Keluarga Berencana Nasional (BKKBN) by Herdiana Ayu Susanti

“…The result shows that communication strategy undertaken by BKKBN Yogyakarta Province in disseminating the program GenRe is through Student Ambassador Selection genre, GenRe Goes To School and GenRe Goes To Campus, Genre Comedy Competition, Poster Competition genre, and Competition NGE - rap genre. …”
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Contemporary British satire and the problem of Jonathan Swift’s personae by John Stubbs

“…They invoke Horkheimer and Adorno’s theory that comedy supports power interests which it purportedly undermines. …”
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Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase: The novelistic rewriting of Ovid (and Shakespeare) in Austen's Emma by Emmanouela Kantzia

“…If, as critics have noted, Austen’s Emma is a re-imaging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, then it is also in dialog with Ovid’s Metamorphoses, one of the main subtexts in Shakespeare’s comedy. The novel can indeed be read as an inversion of the Apollo and Daphne tale, as the heroine assumes in succession the roles of all three protagonists: Daphne, Apollo and Cupid. …”
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La Commedia, le litanie, la santità: alcune riflessioni tra il Purgatorio XIII e il Paradiso XXXIII by Magdalena Maria Kubas

“…The purpose of this contribution is to examine traces of the litanies in two of the three canticles of Dante's Divine Comedy. Starting from a previous study of the presence of litany in the medieval poetry, and from a theoretical study dedicated both to the evolution of the litany and the Weltanschauung that accompanied such process, I examine short fragments of the Purgatorio (XIII) and the Paradiso (XXXIII). …”
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Penia in Entenhausen: Ökonomische Theorie, soziale Utopie und politische Ideologie bei Aristophanes und Carl Barks by Hans Kopp

“…Nevertheless, there is a striking resemblance between ideas propounded in "Plutos," Aristophanes’ last extant comedy of 388 B.C., and “A Financial Fable,” a story by Barks published in 1951. …”
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O riso literário na obra de Adriana Falcão by Concísia Lopes Santos

“…The work of contemporary Brazilian writer Adriana Falcão is strongly permeated by several literary resources that lead to laughter, such as exaggerations, ironies, jokes, comedy, breaks of expectations and stereotypes, humor, the play on words, language games, laughable characters, etc. …”
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Teatro y burla en José Joaquín Benegasi y Luján (1707-1770): noticia de sus piezas dramáticas breves y edición anotada de El tiro a la Discreción by Carlos Mata Induráin

“…In addition to these pieces, one could also mention his burlesque comedy entitled Llámenla como quisieren. At the end, the paper presents an annotated edition of the interlude El tiro a la Discreción.…”
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Die transgressiewe karnavaleske: ’n Fenomeen in die kabarettekste uit ’n Gelyke kans van Jeanne Goosen by Henriëtte Loubser

“…The carnival on the town square represents a world of feasts, comedy, dance, costumes, masks, giants, monsters and trained animals. …”
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Čechov, Zio Vanja, la sofferenza delle donne by Roberto Alonge

“…For purely coincidental reasons, the breaking of the conjugal bond is not consummated within the temporal limits of the comedy, but is only postponed to the near future, although the critics have not noticed it, including the worthy Ripellino. …”
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Audiovisual Narrative Genres as a Tool for Advertising Research by Víctor Hernández-Santaolalla, Jorge David Fernández Gómez, María del Mar Rubio-Hernández

“…The results indicate the importance of genres, especially comedy and drama, in advertising, while providing several practical pointers as regards their strategic and creative implications. …”
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Emigration, Sense of Belonging—A Didactic Experiment through Cinema by Miguel Castro

“…We used a recent film—The Golden Cage, released by the son of Portuguese emigrants—where this feeling of belonging is represented, under ‘the cover’ of a comedy. We showed the film to a group of Demography and Sociology students and had them explore this phenomenon. …”
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Mapping Dante: A Digital Platform for the Study of Places in the Commedia by Andrea Gazzoni

“…This essay presents Mapping Dante, a project for the study of the geography of the Divine Comedy through a digital map visualizing all the place-names mentioned in the text. …”
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A play´s libretto “Sami”. The invention of evil. A Halloween tale by Carlos Bernardo González León

“…In an atmosphere of comedy, satire and play, we go through the most significant celestial event in the Western religious view on the myth of creation of the Universe, and the celestial battle between Luzbel who, out of pride, rebelled against God, desiring to be like him, and was expelled from heaven by the Archangel Michael as a punishment, along with the army of rebellious angels who were dragged by him (a group of innocent cherubim), being known from that time as the Fallen Angel: Bearer of Light; this is, the logos (who delivers the wisdom and the fire to men); but also becomes the supreme archetype of the Rebel, the first universal separatist and autonomist, for the sake of freedom and anarchy. …”
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Segnalazioni/Informes/Rapports/Reports by Emanuele Monegato

“…ISBN 978-1-01-97230-4 Alfie Bown, In the Event of Laughter: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy, New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, 168 pp. …”
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‘Girls wanna have fun’?: The Comical free Verse in Dorothy Parker’s Poetry during the Roaring Twenties by Francisco José Cortés Vieco

“…Despite the mockery of the literary canon that minimizes her legacy, Parker laughs last because her comedy, from black to bright, illustrates women’s ultimate access to their own poetry and humor.…”
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SPORTS VIDEO CATEGORIZATION BY MULTICLASS SVM USING HIGHER ORDER SPECTRA FEATURES by Saju Mohanan

“…It is easy for humans to index the video from the collection of videos which contains news, cartoon, sports, comedy and drama. Among the categories, sports video plays a vital role due to their commercial demand. …”
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