Žena jako objekt tištěných vtipů ve vybraných ročnících Vilímkova kalendáře Humoristických listů

• Authors: Jana Poláková

Title variants

EN

Women as Objects of Printed Jokes in Selected Volumes of Vilímek’s Calendar – a Supplement to the Humoristické listy Magazine

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The focus of the study is on nine volumes of selected folk reading calendars which were issued between 1889 and 1911. The essay offers an overview of basic types and forms of anecdotes and jokes which could be find in the chosen volumes of the calendar, and their graphical and language means. The contribution presents anecdotes, which were concentrated on women, and uses them to indicate the then society’s understanding of women and their position within the society and family. All selected volumes of Vilímek’s humoristic calendar gave a clear feeling of several rooted and only slowly changing stereotype images about women. Some storylines, figures or points had not changed for decades; some others change or cease to exist at the moment when they are no longer actual. While the oral tradition allows a joke to flexibly response to a change, the printed versions are preserved once for all. On the one hand, their relation to the time when they were published allows us an original insight. On the other hand, the point sometimes fully disappears without more detailed knowledge of period cultural and social relations.

Keywords

EN

Anecdote; printed humour; humoristic magazine; folk reading calendars; Vilímek’s calendar; position of women; mass culture

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 19 - 32

Contributors

author

Jana Poláková

• Národopisná revue, redakce, Národní ústav lidové kultury se sídlem ve Strážnici, Zámek 672, 696 62 Strážnice, Czech Republic