Comedic Distance in Holocaust Literature

Cory, Mark E.

doi:10.1111/j.1542-734x.1995.1801_35.x

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“…Taboos are behaviors or expressions "to be avoided" because of social disapproval. In verbal expressions, typical taboo topics include racism, Holocaust (Cory 1995), sexuality, death, sickness and disability, blasphemy, deformity, and bodily functions.…”

Section: Taboosmentioning

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Computational generation and dissection of lexical replacement humor

Valitutti¹,

Doucet²,

Toivanen³

et al. 2015

Nat. Lang. Eng.

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We consider automated generation of humorous texts by substitution of a single word in a given short text. In this setting, several factors that potentially contribute to the funniness of texts can be integrated into a unified framework as constraints on the lexical substitution. We discuss three types of such constraints: formal constraints concerning the similarity of sounds or spellings between the original word and the substitute, semantic or connotational constraints requiring the substitute to be a taboo word, and contextual constraints concerning the position and context of the replacement. Empirical evidence from extensive user studies using real SMSs as the corpus indicates that taboo constraints are statistically very effective, and so is a constraint requiring that the substitution takes place at the end of the text even though the effect is smaller. The effects of individual constraints are largely cumulative. In addition, connotational taboo words and word position have a strong interaction.

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Section: Taboosmentioning

confidence: 99%

Computational generation and dissection of lexical replacement humor

Valitutti¹,

Doucet²,

Toivanen³

et al. 2015

Nat. Lang. Eng.

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Im Schatten der Vergangenheit

Frahm¹

1999

Die Zoologie Der Träume

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De-Judaizing the Shoah in Polish comic books

Stańczyk

2018

Journal of Modern Jewish Studies

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This article analyses a selection of graphic narratives from Poland spanning the period from the 1940s to the 2000s. First, it shows that while the atrocity was far from being considered "unmentionable" by comic book artists, for much of the Communist period, the Jewish victims were, leading to a peculiar de-Judaization of the Holocaust. Second, it argues that despite the liberalization of memory after 1989 and the ensuing "Jewish turn," which brought about a mass revival of interest in Jewish culture and heritage, this tendency largely persists. Analysing a selection of newspaper cartoons, graphic novellas and educational comic books, not only does this paper show how the genre has been subservient to ideological causes but also how its roles and functions changed throughout decades, from light-hearted stories addressed to a mass readership to educational narratives produced with school children in mind. This paper also shows how the graphic narratives in Poland reflect wider public debates, such as those on the Polish national identity, Christian-Jewish relations and the formation of collective memory.

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Comedic Distance in Holocaust Literature

Cited by 9 publications

References 2 publications

Computational generation and dissection of lexical replacement humor

Computational generation and dissection of lexical replacement humor

Im Schatten der Vergangenheit

De-Judaizing the Shoah in Polish comic books

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