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Introduction: Humour and Satire

Introduction: Humour and Satire Daniel Norman, Jake Phipps, and Valentina Varinelli Introduction: Humour and Satire Humour is an enigmatic phenomenon. The function almost as a tool of self-analysis. Its absence of a contemporary scholarly consensus ability to subvert assumptions and mores on its biological and social function suggests becomes a means of voicing transgressive that we have not moved on very far from the impulses or shaping personal and authorial speculations of eighteenth-century theorists. identities despite social and rational restraints. Indeed, humour’s defiance of rational In the opening essay, Matthew Ward explanation might even be called one of its explores the interplay between humour and the defining characteristics: as Hazlitt put it, ‘You supernatural and erotic elements in Burns’s cannot force people to laugh: you cannot give a poetry. The satanic and the sexual are identified reason why they should laugh: they must laugh as chief sources of inspiration for the poet, of themselves, or not at all’. which are also inextricably linked to his view of Satire, in which humour is wielded as a rhyme and rhyme making. Ward shows how weapon, shares this inscrutability. Though what he terms Burns’s ‘comic demonic’ ostensibly, as writers since Swift have combines the superstitious component http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Romanticism Edinburgh University Press

Introduction: Humour and Satire

Norman, Daniel; Phipps, Jake; Varinelli, Valentina
Romanticism , Volume 28 (3): 3 – Oct 1, 2022
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Daniel Norman, Jake Phipps, and Valentina Varinelli Introduction: Humour and Satire Humour is an enigmatic phenomenon. The function almost as a tool of self-analysis. Its absence of a contemporary scholarly consensus ability to subvert assumptions and mores on its biological and social function suggests becomes a means of voicing transgressive that we have not moved on very far from the impulses or shaping personal and authorial speculations of eighteenth-century theorists. identities despite social and rational restraints. Indeed, humour’s defiance of rational In the opening essay, Matthew Ward explanation might even be called one of its explores the interplay between humour and the defining characteristics: as Hazlitt put it, ‘You supernatural and erotic elements in Burns’s cannot force people to laugh: you cannot give a poetry. The satanic and the sexual are identified reason why they should laugh: they must laugh as chief sources of inspiration for the poet, of themselves, or not at all’. which are also inextricably linked to his view of Satire, in which humour is wielded as a rhyme and rhyme making. Ward shows how weapon, shares this inscrutability. Though what he terms Burns’s ‘comic demonic’ ostensibly, as writers since Swift have combines the superstitious component

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