Mai ban dariya

Mai ban dariya
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Samuel Clemens, ɗan wasan barkwanci ɗan Amurka wanda ya rubuta a ƙarƙashin sunan alkalami Mark Twain .

Mai barkwanci mutum ne mai ilimi wanda ke amfani da ba'a ko wayo a rubuce da magana . Mai ba da labari shine wanda ke ba da labarai ta hanyar da ta dace da kuma ban dariya.

Henri Bergson ya rubuta cewa aikin mai barkwanci yana girma ne daga kallon ɗabi'un al'umma.

Kalmar barkwanci galibi ana amfani da ita ga wanda ke yin wasan kwaikwayo ga masu kallo don dariya.

Bambanci daga mai barkwanci

Barkwanci shine halin da ke sa abubuwan da suka faru su jawo dariya ko nishaɗi, yayin da barkwanci fasaha ce ta wasan kwaikwayo . Masanin falsafar Jamus na ƙarni na 19 Arthur Schopenhauer ya yi kuka game da amfani da barkwanci ba bisa ƙa'ida ba ( kalmar aro daga Jamusanci daga Ingilishi) don nufin kowace irin barkwanci. Mai barkwanci yana da ƙwarewa wajen ganin barkwancin a wani yanayi ko wani fanni na rayuwa da kuma danganta shi, yawanci ta hanyar labari; barkwancin gabaɗaya yana mai da hankali kan barkwancin da aka tsara don haifar da dariya nan take. Mai barkwanci galibi marubuci ne na littattafai, labarai na jarida ko mujallu ko ginshiƙai, wasan kwaikwayo na mataki ko na allo, kuma lokaci-lokaci yana iya bayyana a gaban masu sauraro don gabatar da lacca ko ba da labarin wani aiki da aka rubuta. Mai barkwancin koyaushe yana yin wasan kwaikwayo ga masu kallo, ko dai a wasan kwaikwayo kai tsaye, rikodin sauti, rediyo, talabijin, ko fim.

Phil Austin, na ƙungiyar barkwanci ta Firesign Theatre, ya bayyana ra'ayinsa game da bambancin da ke tsakanin rubuce-rubucen 1993 a cikin kundin Fighting Clowns :  

Twain a matsayin fitaccen ɗan wasan barkwanci na Amurka

An yi la'akari da Mark Twain (sunan Samuel Langhorn Clemens, 1835–1910) a matsayin "mafi kyawun mai barkwanci" da Amurka ta taɓa samarwa, kamar yadda aka lura a cikin littafin tarihin rayuwarsa na New York Times . Bambanci ne da ya sami daidaito sosai, kamar yadda William Faulkner ya kira shi "uban adabin Amurka ".

Cibiyar al'adu ta ƙasa ta Amurka, Cibiyar John F. Kennedy don Fasahar Wasanni, ta zaɓi bayar da kyautar Mark Twain don Barkwancin Amurka kowace shekara tun daga 1998 ga mutanen da suka "yi tasiri ga al'ummar Amurka ta hanyoyi makamancin fitaccen marubuci kuma marubucin kasida na ƙarni na 19 wanda aka fi sani da Mark Twain".