A perennial problem for many first-year composition (FYC) instructors is deciding what curricular materials to use to teach their students about rhetoric and composition and how to use those resources to enable their students to practice and hone their writing skills. This disse…
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This dissertation explores how humor is employed by minority authors of 21st-century German literature and how that humor contributes to redrawing perceived centers and margins in contemporary Germany. I investigate humor as a community-building tool that establishes points of i…
Mizah, hayatımızın her alanında bulunan ve insanların gülmesine, bir nebze olsun günlük hayatın sorunlarından uzaklaşıp kendine ve gülmeye vakit ayırmasına imkân sağlayan bir alan olmakla beraber tarihi süreç içerisinde iktidarın veya siyasal otoritelerin çekindiği bir konu olmu…
Abū Ishāq al-Husrī died in Qayrawān in 413/1022 and gained renown as an adīb through his mentorship of the youth of Qayrawān, including Ibn Rashīq (d. 456/1063) and Ibn Sharaf (d. 460/1067), and through his authorship of several works, most notably the Zahr al-ādāb wa-thamar al-…
Using two methodological approaches, a purely structural semiotic analysis with hermeneutics, this study analyzes how meaning is produced in Nigerian political cartoons published it three magazines during 1993–1996. This was a time when Nigeria was characterized as a model of de…
The sense of humour is a uniquely human skill and understanding humour is an important and rewarding part of social interaction. This thesis begins by discussing the definition of humour, followed by a review of the evidence we have that humour is an evolved and adaptive behavio…
This study investigated the experience of humour of people with Asperger’s syndrome. It aimed to explore the lived experience of this phenomenon. A literature review was undertaken which revealed that people with Asperger’s syndrome are thought not to have a sense of humour and …
This dissertation analyzes the interplay between reality and fiction in four of Javier Marias's novels, Todas las almas, Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, Negra espalda del tiempo and Fiebre y lanza, and in selections from his journalistic articles. It focuses on the antirealis…
Drawing on Lave and Wenger's (1991) and Wenger's (1998) communities of practice (CoP) framework, this study explores the shared repertoire of humor practices in the creation of community within the context of a culturally diverse and multilevel adult Arabic language classroom co…
In this dissertation I defend Rawlsian political liberalism against a challenge posed by Frantz Fanon; I justify my defense through interpretations of post-WWII Jewish American humor. Fanon claimed that stigmatization traps stigmatized people in distorted and devalued self-under…
This study attempts to show that every culture has its own humorous texts that can be understood by its native speakers, while speakers in other cultures may understand these texts differently or not at all. This study also intends to confirm that cultural contexts have two impo…
This study explores humor, irony, and satire in the wake of the September 11th attacks, and in relation to nationalist, conservative, and racialized ideologies in the United States. Employing a case study approach, the dissertation analyzes a range of media texts spanning the de…
The period between South Africa’s unification in 1910 and its departure from the British Commonwealth in 1961 was a momentous period of social change whereby South Africans of diverse racial, cultural and linguistic backgrounds strove with varying degrees of success to realize t…
In this dissertation, I argue that Tacitus used humor as an important rhetorical strategy in his historical works. Well-known features of Tacitus’ style, including variatio, weighted alternatives, and appendix sentences, can create and are used to create humor. I employ a combin…
La presente tesis aborda el papel del humor y de la ironía en la filosofía, no solo como armas retóricas que los más importantes autores de nuestra tradición han empleado, sino también como elemento esencial de una tradición llamada “ironista” defendida por el filósofo norteamer…
In the third essay of his Genealogy of Morality, Friedrich Nietzsche offers a wide-ranging criticism of the ascetic ideal as it is present in art, religion, philosophy, science, and nihilism. Nietzsche’s approach in this work is quite negative, but is it exclusively negative? Do…
This dissertation argues that moral and religious authorities of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods adapted rules for emotional governance from Senecan philosophy. These Senecan rules helped institute a performance-based approach to managing emotion, which relied on programmat…
This dissertation examines how several genres of American comedy represented issues relating to the women’s and gay liberation movements during the 1970s and 1980s. Television comedy writers, cartoonists, and stand-up performers responded to feminism, changing gender roles, and …
In the plays of Plautus, enslaved characters joke and make witty remarks about brutality so frequently that it may be called a hallmark of Plautus’ comedy. Through re-readings of scenes from select Plautine plays, I ask what humor about brutality can tell us about non-elite pers…