Overview
- Provides a comprehensive focus on the limits of the methodologies used by scholars to address 'humour' across cultural history
- Maps and elucidates the methodological problems raised by historical case studies
- Highlights the theoretical challenges involved in presenting historical humour to contemporary audiences
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This handbook addresses the methodological problems and theoretical challenges that arise in attempting to understand and represent humour in specific historical contexts across cultural history. It explores problems involved in applying modern theories of humour to historically-distant contexts of humour and points to the importance of recognising the divergent assumptions made by different academic disciplines when approaching the topic. It explores problems of terminology, identification, classification, subjectivity of viewpoint, and the coherence of the object of study. It addresses specific theories, together with the needs of specific historical case-studies, as well as some of the challenges of presenting historical humour to contemporary audiences through translation and curation. In this way, the handbook aims to encourage a fresh exploration of methodological problems involved in studying the various significances both of the history of humour and of humour in history.
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Preliminaries: Terms and Theories
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Front Matter
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Case Studies
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Daniel Derrin is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, UK. He has held research and teaching fellowships in Australia and the UK and has published widely on early modern literature and on humour.
Hannah Burrows is Senior Lecturer in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Aberdeen, UK. She has edited and translated the Old Norse riddle corpus for the Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages series, and her publications include articles on the relationship between the riddles and Norse mythological poetry.
Hannah Burrows is Senior Lecturer in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Aberdeen, UK. She has edited and translated the Old Norse riddle corpus for the Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages series, and her publications include articles on the relationship between the riddles and Norse mythological poetry.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology
Editors: Daniel Derrin, Hannah Burrows
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56646-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56645-6Published: 13 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56648-7Published: 13 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56646-3Published: 12 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 526
Number of Illustrations: 56 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Historiography and Method, Cultural History, Social History, Language History, Literary History, Sociology of Culture