Inciting Laughter: The Development of "Jewish Humor" in 19th Century German Culture |
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This idea of a special type of “Jewish humor” written in German but antitical to the
values of mainstream German-language society was the product of its time,
originating alongside the gradual legal emancipation and social integration ...
This idea of a special type of “Jewish humor” written in German but antitical to the
values of mainstream German-language society was the product of its time,
originating alongside the gradual legal emancipation and social integration ...
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Along with concepts like “culture,” “industry,” “democracy,” “class” and “art,” the
shifting significance of humor via terms like Witz and Humor represents a crux of
social evolution. The basic direction of the change has been well described by
the ...
Along with concepts like “culture,” “industry,” “democracy,” “class” and “art,” the
shifting significance of humor via terms like Witz and Humor represents a crux of
social evolution. The basic direction of the change has been well described by
the ...
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The “social gesture” [geste social] of humor, according to Bergson, is therefore
punitive and conservative, disciplining would-be rebels and encouraging them to
conform to social rules. Freud, on the other hand, focuses on verbal jokes, seeing
...
The “social gesture” [geste social] of humor, according to Bergson, is therefore
punitive and conservative, disciplining would-be rebels and encouraging them to
conform to social rules. Freud, on the other hand, focuses on verbal jokes, seeing
...
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mor as a nexus of constantly shifting social hierarchies carried by language.
Summing up this perspective, she writes: Because joking marks transgressions
on the site of their genuine occurrence, it confirms us strongly as able to keep the
rule ...
mor as a nexus of constantly shifting social hierarchies carried by language.
Summing up this perspective, she writes: Because joking marks transgressions
on the site of their genuine occurrence, it confirms us strongly as able to keep the
rule ...
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Nonetheless, on balance, humor would seem to offer an advantage to those on
the social margins since its transgressive element always involves a disruption,
however temporary and inconclusive, of established convention and hierarchies.
Nonetheless, on balance, humor would seem to offer an advantage to those on
the social margins since its transgressive element always involves a disruption,
however temporary and inconclusive, of established convention and hierarchies.
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Inhalt
Atta Troll | 180 |
Cottas neglect and Heines individual reception | 189 |
Judenwitz in and as Literary History | 193 |
The core myth of German literary history | 195 |
The adaptation of the myth over time | 207 |
Continuity and caesura | 222 |
CONCLUSION | 224 |
TRANSLATONS | 229 |
Ludwig Börnes Serious Humor | 64 |
Börnes attitudes toward Jewishness and humor | 69 |
Börne as arts critic | 81 |
Affinities between Börne and Menzel | 91 |
Börnes direct political writings | 99 |
The antiJudenwitz backlash | 104 |
Menzel as Börne apologist | 114 |
Börnes response | 117 |
The BörneMenzel estrangement | 123 |
Börnes final shift | 133 |
Börnes individual reception | 136 |
CHAPTER 4 Who Gets the Job Now? Heinrich Heine and the J G Cotta Publishing House | 139 |
Heines early contact with Cotta | 144 |
Judenwitz and literary talent | 149 |
The Baths of Lucca | 157 |
The backlash against The Baths of Lucca and its influence on Cotta | 173 |
Introduction | 231 |
The KilledOff Yet Still Alive and Kicking M G Saphir or Thirteen Dramatic Poets and a Magician Against One Lone Editor | 232 |
Come Here or Dear Public Look and Trust Whom You Please | 235 |
On Witz | 238 |
On Börne | 241 |
The Jews in Frankfurt am Main | 244 |
Theater Reviews | 247 |
Monograph of the German Post Snail A Contribution to the Natural History of Mollusks and Testaceans | 253 |
Letters from Paris | 259 |
Menzel the Frenchmens Scourge | 262 |
The Baths of Lucca | 266 |
Bibliography | 313 |
Secondary Sources | 317 |
Index | 327 |
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