Between comedy and postirony. The variations of humor in Tyllby Daniel Kehlmann Cover Image

Zwischen Komik und Postironie. Die Spielarten des Humors in Tyllvon Daniel Kehlmann
Between comedy and postirony. The variations of humor in Tyllby Daniel Kehlmann

Author(s): Bożena Badura
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Austrian Literature, German Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Jana Długosza w Częstochowie
Keywords: Daniel Kehlmann; Tyll; humor; postirony; German-language contemporary literature

Summary/Abstract: In his novel Tyll, Daniel Kehlmann explores the limits of humor by, among other things, mixing comedy with seriousness or using postirony. This article examines the varie-ties of humor and methods of creating comic elements, which Kehlmann uses differently in his novel, both on the linguistic level and in the construction and content of the novel. In ad-dition, Tyll provides some examples of postirony, as an irony of irony, which describes a lit-erary process of transcending irony for example by realizing its punch line.

  • Issue Year: 5/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 115-142
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: German