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In the event of laughter : psychoanalysis, literature and comedy / Alfie Bown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bown, Alfie, author.
- Series:
- Psychoanalytic horizons
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Laughter--Psychological aspects.
- Laughter.
- Laughter in literature.
- Comic, The, in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 156 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.
- Summary:
- "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 then 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Laughter's doubleness
- Laughter as liberation
- Laughter and control
- Laughter as event
- Laughter and anxiety.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Bown, Alfie. In the event of laughter.
- ISBN:
- 9781501342622
- 1501342622
- OCLC:
- 1035255217
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