Who’s Laughing Now? New Perspectives on Humor and Paranoia in Postmodern American Fiction – Mgr. Bc. Tereza Walsbergerová, Ph.D.
Mgr. Bc. Tereza Walsbergerová, Ph.D.
Doctoral thesis
Who’s Laughing Now? New Perspectives on Humor and Paranoia in Postmodern American Fiction
Who’s Laughing Now? New Perspectives on Humor and Paranoia in Postmodern American Fiction
Abstract:
Tato disertační práce se zabývá vztahem mezi humorem a paranoiou a slučováním realit jakožto fenoménem, který se objevuje v některých postmoderních amerických narativech. Její hlavní tezí je, že tato literární tendence reprezentuje způsob pohledu na paranoiu, který je produktivní, nepatologický a pozitivní. I když je v některých případech takřka nerozeznatelná, můžeme ji pozorovat a mapovat v mnoha …moreAbstract:
This PhD project focuses on the interplay of humor and paranoia and the merging of realities as a phenomenon that emerges in some instances of postmodern American fiction. Ultimately, it argues that this literary tendency represents a way of looking at paranoia that is productive, non-pathological, and positive. While rather inconspicuous in some and more prominent in others, it can be traced in various …moreKeywords
american literature postmodernism postmodern American fiction paranoia conspiracism conspiracy humor comedy the uncanny millennialism surveillance feminism transnational fiction Kurt Vonnegut Don DeLillo Diane Johnson Junot Díaz Welcome to Night Vale americká literatura postmoderna postmoderní americké narativy konspirace komedie milenialismus sledování feminismus transnacionální literatura
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 23. 2. 2021
Identifier:
https://is.muni.cz/th/v5gzz/
Thesis defence
- Date of defence: 16. 9. 2021
- Supervisor: M.A. Jeffrey Alan Smith, Ph.D.
- Reader: doc. PhDr. Michaela Weiss, Ph.D., prof. Marian Eide
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WALSBERGEROVÁ, Tereza. \textit{Who’s Laughing Now? New Perspectives on Humor and Paranoia in Postmodern American Fiction}. Online. Doctoral theses, Dissertations. Brno: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts. 2021. Available from: https://theses.cz/id/w7171u/.
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Literatures in English / Literatures in English
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