In the Event of Laughter: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy

by Alfie Bown

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501364138
• ISBN13: 9781501364136
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"