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Mining the Comic Verse
Project funded by own resources
Project title Mining the Comic Verse
Principal Investigator(s) Bories, Anne-Sophie
Organisation / Research unit Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften / Fachbereich Französische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft,
Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften / Neuere franz. und allg. Literaturwissenschaft (Marchal)
Project start 01.02.2019
Probable end 31.10.2019
Status Completed
Abstract

By mining, mapping, analysing and interpreting the respective patterns of humour and versification in a digitized 19thand 20thCentury corpus, by describing how the two interact to produce layered meanings, this project aims to gain a precise understanding of humour’s roles within poetry, and situate the postures and forms of poetry humour in a historical and cultural perspective.

Notwithstanding humour’s perceived lower status of humour within literary genres, humorous, and sometimes lewd, poems, have never ceased to be written, including by high-brow poets, and humorous devices are often used in serious poetry, with or without a comic effect. One must wonder how versification is used to produce or enhance humour, what the consequences of using verse in humorous texts are, and examine the wealth of practices and results behind this association, from rich, dark humour to silly-sounding satire. Humour and versification both rely on a disruption of the bona fidecommunication, require a precise mastery of the timing, rhythm, and contextual or intertextual complexities, value the unexpected and depend on a certain degree of familiarity. Both seek to impact the receiver not through the exactness of meaning but through the slipperiness of language, taking advantage of its inherent ambiguities and shortcomings.

The precise interactions between these two vast fields of research – humour and poetry – deserve a thorough investigation, which can be efficiently achieved by the combination of data-based methods and a more traditional, close-reading of texts.

Keywords computational stylistics, digital humanities, poetics, humour, comic, versification, poetry, French, databases, annotating, text mining
Financed by University funds

Cooperations ()

  ID Kreditinhaber Kooperationspartner Institution Laufzeit - von Laufzeit - bis
4482809  Bories, Anne-Sophie  Montémont, Véronique, MCF HDR  ATILF (Nancy)  01.02.2016  31.01.2022 
4488732  Bories, Anne-Sophie  Delente, Eliane, Maître de Conférence  CRISCO (Caen)  01.02.2019  31.10.2019 
4488733  Bories, Anne-Sophie  Renault, Richard, Maître de conférence  CRISCO (Caen)  01.02.2019  31.10.2019 
   

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