What Makes Us Laugh? A Study of Traditional Humor Theories in Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck | ||
| مجلة کلية الأداب - جامعة حلوان | ||
| Article 5, Volume 51, Issue 3, July 2020, Pages 131-166 PDF (1.26 M) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/kgef.2020.311609 | ||
| Author | ||
| Marwa Taher | ||
| Department of English Language & Literature Faculty of Arts, Helwan University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This paper is to examine Jeff Kinney's series Diary of a Wimpy Kid as a new literary genre, which has its own distinctive features. The popularity of the series underlies in its humorous feature which makes it very appealing especially to kids. The researcher has proven that the humorous amusement which Kinney’s readers experience is to be attributed to one or another of the three traditional theories of humor: the Superiority Theory, the Relief Theory and the Incongruity Theory. In other words, an account of humor that cannot be attributed to a particular theory can be attributed to any of the other two. After defining each of these theories as well as throwing light on the challenges that faced each approach, the researcher has proven through some hilarious situations from the selected novel Hard Luck the validity and the equal efficiency of the three theories for the arousal of laughter without any discrepancy. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Novel in cartoons; humor; superiority theory; relief theory; incongruity theory | ||
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