Bøger om Irony

What makes hygge-happy Danes, their humour, society and language so 'special'? Explore useful insights and toe-curling incidents with professor emeritus Lita Lundquist, language and humour researcher at Copenhagen Business School, and British-born, Danish-based Helen Dyrbye, freelance proofreader/translator and principal author of The Xenophobe's Guide to the Danes - while learning to navigate humour better in international waters."Enjoyable and amusing reading. Backed by meaningful qualitative research, it reaches a broad audience. Anyone dealing with people from other nationalities in formal and working settings may benefit from the reflections expressed in this book."The European Journal of Humour Research.

Why did Uffe Ellemann Jensen, minister of foreign affairs, call “the talented cartoonists the most professional political spin doctors of our time”? Why did the architect and controversialist Poul Henningsen want more satirical drawings that “disintegrate public morale” and especially “patriotism and other sorts of self-abuse”? And why did the poet and novelist Klaus Rifbjerg ask “cartoonists to unite/ around his breakfast table”? Well over a thousand words have been said about illustrations – also about cartoons. By the cartoonists themselves as well as by the people like Eugène Delacroix, Oscar Wilde, James Thurber and David Wallis – and even by the one and only ChatGPT. And now also by Søren Vinterberg who has discovered quotes and added some new ones – illustrated by more than fifty members of The Danish Association of Cartoonists. The 90 year anniversary book of Danish Cartoonists is finished at the stroke of a pen by showing off the works of the seven Pentel Award recipents. The book is written by Søren Vinterberg and illustrated by Mette Ehlers, Erik Petri, Bob Katzenelson, Maria Prohazka, Anna Pedersen, Brian Dall Schyth, Claus Seidel, Simon Væth, Morten Løfberg, Thomas Iburg, Ib Kjeldsmark, Rasmus Sand Høyer, Roald Als, Lars Vegas Nielsen, Jon Skræntskov, Jens Julius Hansen, Niels Bo Bojesen, Jørgen Bitsch, Thomas Thorhauge, Lars Jakobsen, Ditte Lander Ahlgren, Lars Andersen, Allan Buch, Gitte Skov, Toril Bækmark, Lars Ole Nejstgaard, Henrik Flagstad, Peter Hermann, Annette Carlsen, Jens Hage, Ida Noack, Louise Thrane Jensen, Mikkel Henssel, Lars Refn, Per Marquard Otzen, Morten Voigt, Clara Selina Bach, Stine Spedsbjerg, Rikke Bisgaard, Christoffer Zieler, Mia Mottelson, Jørgen Saabye, Otto Dickmeiss, Arne Sørensen, Adam O., Phillip Ytournel & Peter Klæstrup. The book also contains "The Pentel Award" written by Bob Katzenelson and Steen Iversen.

This dream-like narrative of an Azerbaijani village in crisis is a superbly cynical horror, that will entertain, amuse and chill the reader. A bulldozer driver is ordered to demolish the village cemetary for the building of a through road. He observes the villagers thrown into turmoil as they realize they must relocate their dead to higher ground.In digging up the cemetary they dig up the history of the village and the families that have lived there, revealing the bones of secrets long buried - and some not so long buried. And in fact some not quite yet . . . dead!