International Studies in Humour

Volume 3, Issue 1 (2014)                        ISSN 2052-3475

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EDITORIAL:

Introducing the Volume of 2014.

Ephraim Nissan, London                              [editorial]  (p. 1)

REGULAR ARTICLES:

PRAGMATICS:

“From Which Position Should I Get This Joke?!” A Relevance-Driven Joke Interpretation: Naive Optimism, Cautious Optimism, Sophisticated Understanding?

Magdalena Biegajlo, Warsaw                        [full paper]  (pp. 2–14)

 Keywords:  Jokes; Relevance Theory.

LITERARY STUDIES:

2014: The Centennial of the Demise of Gerson Rosenzweig

Conniving with the Learned: Gerson Rosenzweig’s Humour on New York Communal Life, in his Talmudic Parody Tractate America.

Ephraim Nissan, London                           [full paper]  (pp. 15–93)

 Keywords:  Satire; America (perception); America (discovery); Jewish studies;   

                                          New York City (c. 1890); Social conditions (immigrants); 

                                          Pastiche; Intertextuality; Accessibility to readers.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

EDUTAINMENT:

Learning Science Through Humour in Children’s Media.

Sai Pathmanathan, Hertfordshire              [full paper]  (pp. 94–107)

 Keywords: Education; Science education; Informal science learning; Edutainment; Entertainment; Learning through humour; Humour in children’s media; Television series; Animated feature films; Children (aged 7-11); Interviews;

                  Classroom observation.

REVIEW ESSAY:

LITERARY STUDIES:

A Wily Peasant (Marcolf, Bertoldo), a Child Prodigy (Ben Sira),

a Centaur (Kitovras), a Wiseman (Sidrach), or the Chaldaean Prince Saturn? Considerations about Marcolf and the Marcolfian Tradition,

with Hypotheses about the Genesis of the Character Kitovras.

 (About: Jan M. Ziolkowski, Solomon and Marcolf. Harvard Series in Medieval Latin, 1. Department of the Classics, Harvard University. Distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2008.)

Ephraim Nissan, London                              [full paper]  (pp. 108–150)

Keywords:  Medieval Latin Salomon et Marculfus (Dialogue of Solomon and Marcolf); Irreverent challenger; Questioning and humorous answers; Marcolf; Russian Solomon and Kitovras; Old English Solomon and Saturn; Old French Sidrach; Hebrew Pseudo-Sirach (The Alphabet of Ben Sira); Italian Bertoldo by Giulio Cesare Croce; Arabic tales about Abū Nuwwāṣ; Abdemon of Tyre; Petrus Alphonsi; cult of Mercury; Ælfric Bata’s Colloquies; Dialogue of Hadrian and Epictetus; Dialogue of Pippin and Alcuin; Book of Sidrach; King Khusro and His Page; Quaestiones Naturales by Adelard of Bath; Dodi ve-Nekhdi by Berekhiah ha-Nakdan.

BOOK REVIEWS:

Clustered in this volume under the rubrics:

·        Thematic issues of Humoresques

·        Ten years ago: 300 years since the Arabian Nights came to Europe

·        Miscellanea

THEMATIC ISSUES OF HUMORESQUES

Several reviews will be posted soon.

TEN YEARS AGO: 300 YEARS SINCE THE

ARABIAN NIGHTS CAME TO EUROPE

Several reviews will be posted soon.

MISCELLANEA

Several reviews will be posted soon.