The Land of Green Plums
A comedy of terrors
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 13003641 |
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| Autores | Shamsodin Royanian (Semnan University, autor correspondente), Omid Etemadi (Semnan University) |
| Ano | 2016 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 79-88 |
| Data de publicação | 2016-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Comedy Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 2040-610X • E-ISSN: 2040-6118 |
| Editora | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/2040610x.2016.1139809 |
| OpenAlex | W2325665914 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 11 |
The winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for literature, Herta Muller is generally known to be voicing the pains of victims of totalitarian regimes. Unlike previous Mullerian studies, we focus on comic elements in her most widely read novel The Land Green Plums. The paper starts with giving a brief introduction of the impact of Aristophanes on visual as well as obscene comedy in the sociopolitical context and then develops the mentioned concepts in the novel. We also highlight the totalitarian militarism using certain scenes of Charlie Chaplin's pictures which depicted failure of both capitalism and communism. Finally, discussing the reverberation of black humor in the work, we compare the novel with Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels on the ground of depiction of a reverse world, significance of death, state of welfare, and languish of plebeians' vision
Aesthetics · Art · Comedy · Comics · Context (archaeology · Depiction · Literature · Pathos · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · History
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
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| Altamente citado | Não |