Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840-1930

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Taylor, Jonathan (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern-19th century.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.

"It's all here, everything, everything that has ever made someone laugh: Charlie Chaplin, Monty Python, sex, gas, dreams, ourang-outangs, the English, machines, mud, God, death, war, philosophy. In short: this is all but the last word on laughter - all but the last laugh, someone might say...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Preface: Allegories of Laughter. I. Comedy and Hybridity. II. Laughter and Annihilation
• 2. His 'Last Jest': On Laughter, Edgar Allan Poe and 'Hop-Frog'. I. Comedy and Horror. II. Laughter and Democracy. III. Laughter and Leap-Frog
• 3. 'Unseemly Levity': On Memoirs, Humour and Edmund Gosse. I. Humour and Genre. II. Humour and Emotion. III. Humour and Text. IV. Humour and Beyond
• 4. 'Perfect Laughter': On War, Wyndham Lewis and The Wild Body. I. Laughter and Dualism. II. Laughter, Dualism and Bodies. III. Laughter, Dualism, Bodies and Anarchism
• 5. Epilogue: 'Derisive Laughter': On Superiority, Katherine Mansfield and 'Miss Brill'.