Yan Brailowsky (ed.), Angles – journal published by the SAES, #1 (2015). ISSN: 2274-2042.
This issue contains thematic contributions on the famous adage ‘brevity is the soul of wit’ which 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, screen-writers, political commentators or politicians.
The issue also includes three contributions in the Varia section which give readers/viewers an inkling of the wealth of innovative research made possible by Angles and its online format.
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Contents
Editorial
Video introduction to issue #1, Yan Brailowsky
Brevity is the soul of wit
- ‘The Language of the Future’ and the Crisis of Modernity: Mina Loy’s Aphorisms on Futurism
Yasna Bozhkova - Condensation and displacement in the poetry of Lorine Niedecker
Axel Nesme - John L. Brown’s Epistolary Wit. The Difficult Art of Practicing Public Diplomacy
Raphaël Ricaud - Graphic Interlude. “Brevity is the soul of wit”
Jay Hide, Melanie Friend, and James McLaren
- “Language is worth a thousand pounds a word”
Jean-Jacques Lecercle - Short and sweet? Structuring humor and morality in American sitcoms
Shannon Wells-Lassagne - Three Little Words and the Critical Argument of The Best Show on WFMU
Thomas Britt - One-liners and linguistics: (re)interpretation, context and meaning
Catherine Chauvin
Varia
- Things are going to change: Genre hybridization in Shaun of the Dead
Jean-François Baillon and Nicolas Labarre - Photographing the Miner’s Strike at Lea Hall Colliery, 1984-1987. Interview with photographer Nigel Dickinson
Mathilde Bertrand - Gender and Race Trouble: The Emperor Jones by The Wooster Group
Emeline Jouve