@article{Gładkowska_2020, title={Transmedialne losy wybranych fragmentów XVI- i XVII-wiecznej poezji i prozy Johna Donne’a jako ilustracja społecznej użyteczności śmiechu}, volume={1}, url={https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/an/article/view/5222}, DOI={10.31648/an.5222}, abstractNote={<p><span style="left: 165.501px; top: 762.502px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.17176);">This article indicates the specific manner in which early modern literature </span><span style="left: 98.841px; top: 780.502px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.17258);">is exploited in contemporary media. It focuses on the interaction involving the trans-</span><span style="left: 98.841px; top: 798.502px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.14052);">position of philosophical texts to the domain of laughter embedded in the everyday life </span><span style="left: 98.841px; top: 816.502px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.10388);">of the modern recipient. Selected passages of John Donne’s (1572-1631) prose and poetry </span><span style="left: 98.841px; top: 834.502px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.12865);">serve to illustrate how an old literary work encourages new creativity, how it transcends </span><span style="left: 98.841px; top: 852.502px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.16816);">the boundaries set by a given epoch, culture and form, to undergo a specific thematic </span><span style="left: 98.841px; top: 870.502px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.19557);">and structural transformation. What seems particularly interesting in this process is </span><span style="left: 98.841px; top: 888.502px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.1789);">the conversion of philosophical sadness into a useful joke incorporated in, inter alia, </span><span style="left: 98.841px; top: 906.502px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.13786);">the transition from meditation to motivation, from inspiration to action. In other words, </span><span style="left: 98.841px; top: 924.502px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.20985);">this article examines laughter provoked at the interface between a profound philo-</span><span style="left: 98.841px; top: 942.502px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.17896);">sophical message and popular entertainment which combines images and words and </span><span style="left: 98.841px; top: 960.502px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.18095);">activates the intellect as well as the senses and emotions. Such foundations give rise </span><span style="left: 98.841px; top: 978.502px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.13294);">to a transmedia message being socially functional – not only as comic relief, but also as </span><span style="left: 98.841px; top: 996.502px; font-size: 15px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.1627);">a didactic tool for shaping attitudes.</span></p>}, number={XXII}, journal={Acta Neophilologica}, author={Gładkowska, Dorota}, year={2020}, month={cze.}, pages={113–126} }