Ridiculed death and the dead: Black humor on the epitaphs and epigrams of the ancient Greece

Theories about black humor usually regard that it as a contemporary phenomenon and a culmination of the literary modernism and beginning of post-modernism. My intent in this paper is to refute the thesis that the black humor is a modern invention. I am going to prove its existence still in Greek ant...

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Main Author: Stevanović Lađa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade 2007-01-01
Series:Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU
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Online Access:http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2007/0350-08610701193S.pdf