Description: In the Event of Laughter : Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy, Paperback by Bown, Alfie, ISBN 1501364138, ISBN-13 9781501364136, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
Using Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as its pre-history and afterlives, In the Event of Laughter argues for a new framework for discussing laughter. Responding to a tradition of comedy studies that has been interested only in the causes of laughter (in why we laugh), it proposes a different relationship between laughter and causality. Ultimately it argues that laughter is both cause and effect, troubling chronological time and asking for a more nuanced way of conceiving the relationship between subjects and their laughter than existing theories have accounted for.
Making this visible via psychoanalytic ideas of retroactivity, Alfie Bown explores how laughter – far from being a mere response to a stimulus – changes the relationship between the present, the past and the future. Bown investigates this hypothesis in relation to a range of comic texts from the history of laughter, discussing Chaucer, Shakespeare, Kafka and Chaplin, as well as lesser-known but vital figures from the comic genre.
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Book Title: In the Event of Laughter : Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy
Number of Pages: 168 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: In the Event of Laughter : Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Subject: Comparative Literature, Movements / Psychoanalysis, History & Surveys / Modern, Humor
Item Height: 0.3 in
Publication Year: 2020
Item Weight: 7.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Alfie Bown
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Psychology
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
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