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Humour in a Tamil Author's Popular Comedies

Ferro-Luzzi, Gabriella Eichinger

Anthropos, 1988-01, Vol.83 (1/3), p.17-30 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Humour in a Tamil Author's Popular Comedies
Autor: Ferro-Luzzi, Gabriella Eichinger
Assuntos: 1900-1999 ; Brothers ; Cognitive problems, arts and sciences, folk traditions, folklore ; Comedy ; drama ; Ethnology ; Fathers ; Humor ; Humour ; Husbands ; Indian culture ; Indian literature ; Jokes ; Literature and folk literature ; Marina ; Oral/folk literature ; Similes ; Sons ; Tamil language literature ; Wordplay ; Words
É parte de: Anthropos, 1988-01, Vol.83 (1/3), p.17-30
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Descrição: The article examines the thematic and linguistic humour of ten comedies by the popular Tamil writer Marina. The comedies being about Tamil family life their thematic humour consists mostly in the reversal of social norms. Feigned or excessive adherence to spiritual customs and beliefs as well as human weaknesses constitute further butts of humour. The characters' loquacity, their play on words and use of funny sayings and similes actualize and sometimes create the humour of the theme. Marina's humour is found to be both similar to and different from western humour. Since similarities seem to outweigh differences the study supports the existence of mental proclivities independent of culture and language.
Editor: Fribourg: Paulusdruckerei
Idioma: Inglês

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