‘Perhaps the most famous reference to this issue comes from the Ig Nobel Prize committee which honours achievements that “first make people laugh, then make people think.” ‘ That quotation is from the chapter “Satire, Humour, Language and Style in Nigerian Literature“, by Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju, in the book Humour Theory and Stylistic Enquiry, T. Oloruntoba-Oju […]
The Ig Nobel prizes are popping up in even the most literary worlds. The Cotidianul site invites you to [here we machine translated from Romanian into English]: “read excerpts from the work of Gheorghe Schwartz – Zu Island, published by Tracus Arte Publishing House in 2016″: Radu remembers – when was that? – a discussion on […]
The founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society, who in 2001 was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for that achievement, has announced that the Apostrophe Protection Society will come to an end. He made the announcement with a tinge of happy bitterness. A December 1, 2019 news report in the Evening Standard says: A society dedicated […]
“We hypothesized that the quantitative and qualitative literary output of famous writers would correlate with their number of mates, children, and grandchildren. We further assumed that writing lyric poetry would be more beneficial for mating success than nonpoetry because the former consists of more verbal handicaps (e.g., rhymes) than the latter and thus requires special […]