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Publication details [#41294]

Pettersson, Bo. 2004. Exploring the common ground: Sensus communis, humor and the interpretation of comic poetry. Journal of Literary Semantics 33 (2) : 155–167.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

humor | interpretation | poetry

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/JLSE/html

Annotation

This paper deals with sensus communis, humor and the interpretation of comic poetry. The American writer Ogden Nash and his rather misanthropic view of various others in his comic poetry functions as a test case.