In this analysis of Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters, I argue that performance of the witch is the most important part of witchcraft on Discworld, and, indeed, what drives the story. To underpin this position, I understand Wyrd Sisters as a work of metafiction and parody, examine witch tropes and stories on Discworld and draw parallels to the weird s...
Published in Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift
When the caricature came up in the late 16th century, the notion meant an overloaded or exaggerated – and humorous – kind of portrait. Since then its meaning has changed considerably. Today caricature is understood as a visual equivalent of literary satire. This modern understanding has its origin in the bourgeois culture of the Enlightenment. In m...
The idea of the literariness of Russian culture, of the impact of literature on Russian life may be an axiom of the Russian cultural consciousness, yet it does not cease to attract the attention of researchers. Russian literature itself, from the 19th century onwards, has been a manifestation of this idea, even though the semantics of the life–lite...
International audience
Published in Journal of Contemporary Drama in English
This article examines the recent explosion of British dystopian plays, analysing their changing characteristics from the 1990 s to the 2010 s. After an initial brief look at precursors, it then focuses on examples of new writing which tackle the idea of dystopia in the absurdist manner typical of the 2000 s. In a third step, the focus is on the dys...
Le présent article propose une mise au point sur le lexique employé,en grec et en latin, pour évoquer les images caricaturales et/ouparodiques. Une attention particulière est réservée aux témoignagesrelatifs au peintre Antiphile d'Égypte et à son gryllos.
Abstract This essay aims at investigating the significance of Jane Austen in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman. References to Austen’s Persuasion appear three times in Fowles’s novel, and the resonances of this intertextual dialogue substantially affect the politics of characterization and space (mainly the Cobb) in The French Lieutenant’...
Published in HUMOR
The COVID-19 pandemic that broke out in Israel in February 2020 prompted widespread public response, which included a deluge of humorous memes. The current article discusses the main meme cycles of the pandemic with the aim of uncovering the functions of the humorous meme, and particularly its singular language, which incorporates the universal and...
Published in Discourse & Society
Advancing the concept of multimodal voicing as a tool for describing user-generated online humour, this paper reports a study on humorous COVID-19 mask memes. The corpus is drawn from four popular social media platforms and examined through a multimodal discourse analytic lens. The dominant memetic trends are elucidated and shown to rely programmat...
L'étude de l'extrait de Woman and Nature (1978) de Susan Griffin reproduit dans le recueil Reclaim (2016) permet de voir comment l'autrice condamne un discours patriarcal et écocide tout en affirmant une pratique écoféministe de la langue. La réécriture parodique de certains philosophes, scientifiques et hommes d'Eglise permet en effet à Susan Grif...
