Contents

Part I: Genres of Polish humour  13

Natalia Lemann, Humour in prose literature from the Middle Ages to 1918  15
Paweł Kamocki, The comic spirit of Old Poland in literature  39
Maria Wojtak, Comic effects in the stage works of Aleksander Fredro  57
Izabela Curyłło-Klag, Laughing at life’s lowest abominations with Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz  79
Michał Palmowski, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński’s Little Theatre of the Green Goose  93
Jerzy Jarniewicz, Subversive tomfoolery. Humour in poetry after 1989  103
Natalia Lemann, Katarzyna Gucio, Humour in contemporary literature  113
Natalia Lemann, An orphan in prison, or humour in fantasy literature  133
Izabela Mikrut, Satire and satirists in twentieth-century Poland  161
Łukasz Błąd, Cabaret in Poland – Polish cabaret  175
Maria Wojtak, Humour in the contemporary press  221
Marta Dynel, Polish film comedies 241
Beata Grochala, Iwona Dembowska-Wosik, All we hear is radio Poland 257
Grzegorz Grzegorczyk, Television humour 269
Beata Grochala, Iwona Dembowska-Wosik, Humour in the global network  285

Part II: Forms of Polish humour  297

Grzegorz Grzegorczyk, Winged words – contemporary proverbs and aphorisms  299
Agnieszka Libura, Amelia Kiełbawska, Humour in posters  311
Maria Załęska, The Polish caricature  353
Agnieszka Libura, Images from post-war Poland in the mirror of satirical drawings  383
Izabela Mikrut, Łukasz Błąd, The cabaret song  405
Maria Świątkiewicz-Mośny, Political humour in the period of People’s Republic of Poland  425
Marta Dynel, Contemporary political humour  437
Dorota Brzozowska, Ethnic jokes  451
Agnieszka Uścińska, The Jewish szmonces 1918-1939  475
Andrzej Ksenicz, Humour of the Russniak (Lemko) people  491
Anna Lubecka, The image of the Roma in Polish jokes  503
Maria Świątkiewicz-Mośny, Regional humour of Upper Silesia  535
Monika Kostro, Manly banks and high-heeled bank accounts. Gender humour in advertising  543
Beata Grochala, Iwona Dembowska-Wosik, Well begun is half done – sense of humour of children and adolescents  559

Part III: Humour research in Poland  571

Władysław Chłopicki, Between philosophy, literature and linguistics of humour in Poland – an overview  573
Janina Hajduk-Nijakowska, Folklore studies on humour  591
Anna Radomska, Researching psychology of humour  611
Joanna Olejarczyk, Humour events – conferences and festivals  657

Notes on Contributors   669

Index   675