Non-Violent Resistance
Subtitle: Irreverence in Irish Culture
Publisher: Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781787077072
Subjects: Wit and humor; Popular culture, ireland; Ireland, intellectual life
Description: "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"--