Framing Literary Humour

Contrary to what their oppressive design would lead us to believe might structures of imprisonment actually incite humour Starting from the most obvious areas of imprisonment war camps prison cells and moving to the less obvious masks bodies Framing Literary Humourdemonstrates how 20thcentury humour in theory and in fiction cannot be fully understood without a careful look at its connection with the notion of imprisonment. Understanding imprisonment as a concrete spatial setting or a metaphoric