Brevity Is The Soul Of Wit

Yan Brailowsky (1)

1 CREA (EA 370) - Centre de Recherches Anglophones

The eight contributions on the topic offer transhistorical and transcultural analyses which point out the formal and aesthetic aspects of certain forms, as well as the cultural context and political use of jokes and repartee by writers, screenwriters, political commentators or politicians.

Domaines: Littératures; Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Linguistique

Yan Brailowsky. Brevity Is The Soul Of Wit. Angles: French Perspectives on the Anglophone World, 1, 2015, ⟨10.4000/angles.1991⟩. ⟨hal-01640411⟩