8 Non-joke Humor Texts
As indicated in the previous chapters, the application of the SSTH 1 outside of the realm of its original design presents some interesting issues. This section will explore how an application of the GTVH may proceed with texts other than jokes. The section will consist of the examination of four case-studies: a short-story by E. A. Poe, the beginning of Voltaire’s Candide, some passages from the novels of T. L. Peacock, and a short passage from a French Medieval menu propos (a peculiar type of rhymed poetic form).
Roughly, an application of the GTVH to humorous texts larger and more complex than jokes presents two cases: some texts appear to be structurally identical to a joke and so they can be analyzed as a particularly ...
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