TY  - BOOK
AU  - Agnès Maillot
AU  - Jennifer Bruen
AU  - Jean-Philippe Imbert
PY  - 2019
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781787077089
TI  - Non-Violent Resistance
T2  - Irreverence in Irish Culture
DO  - 10.3726/b11401
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055807
N2  - Humour, by its very nature controversial, plays an important role in social interaction. With its power to question assumptions, it can be used a weapon of subversion, and its meaning and interpretation are embedded within the culture that generates them in complex ways. The scrutiny of Irish culture through the lens of humour is highly revealing, contributing to an alternative, and sometimes irreverent, reading of events. As John Updike wrote of Raymond Queneau’s witty re-imagining of the Easter Rising, humour can effectively expose «casual ambivalence». This volume investigates the many ways in which writers, playwrights, politicians, historians, filmmakers, artists and activists have used irreverence and humour to look at aspects of Irish culture and explore the contradictions and shortcomings of the society in which they live.
KW  - Irish Studies, Non-violent resistance, Irreverence, Humour, Satire, Caricature
LA  - English
ER  -