black humour

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Definition von black humour im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch

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Englisch - Englisch

Definition von black humour im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

Alternative spelling of black humor

jokes or funny stories that deal with the unpleasant parts of human life. Humour marked by the use of morbid, ironic, or grotesquely comic episodes that ridicule human folly. The term came into common use in the 1960s to describe the work of novelists such as Joseph Heller, whose Catch-22 (1961) is an outstanding example; Kurt Vonnegut, particularly in Slaughterhouse Five (1969); and Thomas Pynchon, in V (1963) and Gravity's Rainbow (1973). A film exemplar is Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1963). The term black comedy has been applied to some playwrights in the Theatre of the Absurd, especially Eugène Ionesco

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black humor

A subgenre of comedy and satire that deals with subjects that are believed to be serious or volatile, such as death, divorce, drug abuse, etc

black humor

morbid humor

black humor

the juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect

Silbentrennung

black hu·mour

Etymologie

[ 'blak ] (adjective.) before 12th century. Middle English blak, from Old English blæc; akin to Old High German blah black, and probably to Latin flagrare to burn, Greek phlegein.