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1. Literary Term --- black humor
2. Representative Writers ﹠ Their Works
Joseph Heller 约瑟夫・海勒
Kurt Vonnegut 库尔特・冯内古特
Thomas Pynchon 托马斯・品钦
Black Humor
Black humor is a type of modern humor that is caused by anger. It often describes gruesome events, which are normally associated with pleasant occasions, thus producing the congruous effect for humor. Black humor attacks on social mores through shocking language and offensive imagery. Black humor is a kind of desperate humor. It is the laughter at tragic things. In this meaningless world, according to Black Humorists, man’s fate is decided by prehensive powers. We can’t do anything about it; therefore we may as well laugh.
Black Humor
Black humor is an important literary term of America in 1960’ word black es from a name of a book, which is written by . Friedman. Black humor refers primarily to a kind of bitter and often outrageous satire.
What is Black Humor?
Black humor
What: dark humor, grotesque or morbid
humor
Where: literature, drama, and film
Function: to express the absurdity, insensitivity, paradox, and cruelty of the modern world.
Ordinary characters or situations are usually exaggerated far beyond the limits of normal satire or irony.
Black humor uses devices often associated with tragedy and is sometimes equated with tragic farce.
(1) Coinage(创造) in France
Black humor is a term coined by Surrealist theoretician André Breton in 1935, to designate a sub-genre edy and satire in which laughter arises from cynicism and skepticism, often about the topic of death.
(2) Adoption in American literature
An English-language anthology(文集) edited by Bruce Jay Friedman, titled Black Humor, imported the concept in the ., labeling with it very different authors and works, arguing that they shared the same literary genre.
Writers: Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Joseph Heller and Philip Roth.
The rationale(理论根据) for applying such label to them is tha
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