Transmedial Perspectives on Humour and Translation From Page to Screen to Stage

"This volume makes stimulating inroads into the complex world of humour across lingual, modal and medial borders. In 11 chapters emerging and established scholars explore a wide range of humouristic phenomena and their translation across various media - from book, stage to film and TV and internet. In doing so, they broaden the view from a purely linguistic perspective to a transmedial one, bringing translation studies into dialogue with a range of other disciplines. It is a great merit of this carefully and masterfully edited volume that humour is taken seriously and that one still has fun reading it. In this sense, this volume is an essential textbook for readers across disciplines who are interested in the many forms of transmedial humour translation."

- Klaus Kaindl, University of Vienna