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Intercultural and interartistic transfers of Shandean humour in the 20th and 21st centuries

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This chapter centres on the case study of a monument of eighteenth-century British humour, Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1759–1767). It will address what happens to Sterne’s humour when it gets translated into French at different times in history as well as when it is adapted into film or graphic novel for twentieth and twenty-first-century audiences. How did the successive French translators deal with what they might have considered specific forms of British humour? How can a twentieth or twenty-first-century translator or artist give an idea of some of Sterne’s witty allusions to or parodies of contextual references? In other words: is Sterne’s humour bound to be ‘lost in translation’ or not? I address here the challenge of presenting Sterne’s humour through translation by focusing on three specific aspects: metalepsis, anachronism, and parody. The chapter shows that the continuous effort to reproduce Sterne’s humour through translation is the source of inventive new forms of humour, spanning past and present.
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hal-04013845 , version 1 (03-03-2023)

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Yen-Mai Tran-Gervat. Intercultural and interartistic transfers of Shandean humour in the 20th and 21st centuries. Daniel Derrin, Hannah Burrows. The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History and Methodology, Palgrave MacMillan, p. 443-457, 2021, 978-3-030-56646-3. ⟨hal-04013845⟩
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