31.3164, Books: Style and Emotion in Comic Novels and Short Stories: Marszalek

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Subject: 31.3164, Books: Style and Emotion in Comic Novels and Short Stories: Marszalek

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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 21:31:08
From: Lianna Iwanikiw [lianna.iwanikiw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Style and Emotion in Comic Novels and Short Stories: Marszalek

 


Title: Style and Emotion in Comic Novels and Short Stories 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/style-and-emotion-in-comic-novels-and-short-stories-9781350054585/ 


Author: Agnes Marszalek

Electronic: ISBN:  9781350054608 Pages: 184 Price: U.K. £ 58.50 Comment: ePUB
Electronic: ISBN:  9781350054592 Pages: 184 Price: U.K. £ 58.50 Comment: PDF
Hardback: ISBN:  9781350054585 Pages: 184 Price: U.K. £ 65.00


Abstract:

This book builds on cognitive stylistics, humour studies and psychological
approaches to literature and film to explore the emotional aspects of humorous
narrative comprehension. It investigates how the linguistic features of comic
novels and short stories (by, for example, Douglas Adams, Joseph Heller and
Nick Hornby) can shape readers' experience of comedy, considering the ways in
which moods, characters and the plot is used to trigger blends of positive and
negative emotion. The book offers an approach to such features of comedy as
dark humour, cringe humour and comic suspense, emphasising the relationship
between humorous language and mental states which are typically considered
serious.

Agnes Marszalek's focus on the non-humorous side of experiencing comedy offers
a key contribution to the study of humorous narratives. By investigating
humour as part of a narrative world, this book moves towards addressing the
complexity of the experience of humour in narrative texts, providing
implications not only for the linguistics of humour, but also for those
approaches to discourse comprehension which explore the affective side of
engaging with texts.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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