RESONANCE - journal of the Department of Slavonic and Finno-Ugrian Studies,
University of Delhi, New Delhi, INVITES articles for its next issue:
Humour and satire in Hungarian and Slavonic culture.
Anecdotes, jokes, humour, satire - all form an essential part of the fabric
of our society and culture and add flavour to an otherwise routine and drab
existence. Laughter is the world's common language and those that create and
stoke it do so in myriad ways. The intricate nuances and play of words,
which create comic situations, are unique for each society, sometimes even
each locality.
Schoppenauer called humor "an escape from the tyranny of reason" and yet
humour and satire in their own unique way appeal most to reason. It may be
Horatian - gentle and urbane or Juvenalian - bitter and biting, but
essentially it is expository literature seeking to search order through the
technique of distortion and incongruity.
The mechanism of humour and satire is not as simple as it appears - adroitly
presenting the contrast between reality and pretense and offering pleasure
and to some extent release of aggression.It is pervasive and finds
expression not only in the field of literature but also other art forms.
Humour and satire is said to develop and flourish most in the transitory
phases of society, and even more under repressive conditions. The
development of humour and satire as a form of protest and as a subtle tool
of criticism has had its own evolution in the societies of the so-called
eastern bloc countries. The Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Polish, Russian,
Byelorussian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Croatian, Hungarian cultures - all have a
rich heritage of humorists and satirists who are famous for their unique
"sense of humour". Unfortunately, linguistic and cultural barriers have led
to a situation, where very little is known about them in our country. In
order to shed more light on some of the luminaries in this area as well as
their works, and to put together a comprehensive picture of humour and
satire in these societies, the central theme of the next issue of RESONANCE
is dedicated to "humour and satire in Hungarian and Slavonic culture".
We invite scholarly articles related to any of the following broad areas:
1. Humour and satire in literature - prose, poetry, drama.
2. Humour and satire in politics.
3. Linguistic analysis of humour and satire.
4. Problems in translation of humour and satire.
5. Humour and satire in cinema, songs, ballads, folklore and pop
culture.
6. Humour and satire in mass media and the electronic media.
7. Pictorial humour - caricatures, cartoons.
8. Humour and satire as a textual aid in FLT.
9. Any theoretical aspect of the study of humour and satire.
This is by no means an exhaustive list. Your article could be related to any
aspect of humour and satire in a historical, contemporary or comparative
perspective. Your article should preferably be written in English. If
written in a language other than English, a brief summary of the article in
English is requested. Please mention your name, designation and place of
work at the top of the article.
A copy of your article should be sent to the undersigned electronically as
an email attachment latest by 31st January 2007. Your contribution should
not be less than 3.500 and more than 8.000 words. Please type your article
in word document, double space, font size 12. All footnotes should be placed
at the end of the article, followed by the bibliography.
Looking forward to your response
Thanking you,
Yours truly,
The editors,
Dr. Rashmi Joshi Dr. Neelakshi
Suryanarayan
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