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Funny Story is a 2018 tragicomedy film, directed by Michael J. Gallagher and co-written by Gallagher and Steve Greene. It stars Matthew Glave , Emily Bett Rickards and Jana Winternitz. The film premiered as an official selection at the 2018 Slamdance Film Festival on January 21, 2018.
It's Kind of a Funny Story is a 2006 novel by American author Ned Vizzini. The book was inspired by Vizzini's own brief hospitalization for depression in November 2004. [1] Ned Vizzini later died by suicide [2] on December 19, 2013. The book received recognition as a 2007 Best Book for Young Adults from the American Library Association. [3]
Funny Story is a 2024 novel by American author Emily Henry. The romance novel follows librarian Daphne and Miles, whose exes are dating each other. [ 1 ] Magazine Paste says it "has lots of heart but too little mischief".
This is a partial list of works that use metafictional ideas. Metafiction is intentional allusion or reference to a work's fictional nature. It is commonly used for humorous or parodic effect, and has appeared in a wide range of mediums, including writing, film, theatre, and video gaming.
One of the advantages of this theory (GTVH) over Raskin's script-based semantic theory (SSTH) is that through the inclusion of the Narrative Strategy (NS) any and all humorous texts can be categorized. Whereas Raskin's SSTH only deals with jokes, the GTVH considers all humorous text from spontaneous one-liners to funny stories and literature.
In its original sense, a shaggy-dog story or yarn is an extremely long-winded anecdote characterized by extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents and terminated by an anticlimax. In other words, it is a long story that is intended to be amusing and that has an intentionally silly or meaningless ending. [1]
However, subverting these and other common guidelines can also be a source of humour—the shaggy dog story is an example of an anti-joke; although presented as a joke, it contains a long drawn-out narrative of time, place and character, rambles through many pointless inclusions and finally fails to deliver a punchline. Jokes are a form of ...
The story first appeared in Dostoevsky's self-published monthly journal A Writer's Diary in 1877. According to literary theorist and Dostoevsky scholar Mikhail Bakhtin , The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is a modern manifestation of the ancient literary genre Menippean satire , and touches on almost all the themes characteristic of Dostoevsky's ...