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Laughter - Notes on a Passion (Paperback)
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Laughter - Notes on a Passion (Paperback)
Series: Short Circuits
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Uncovering an archive of laughter, from the forbidden giggle to the
explosive guffaw. Most of our theories of laughter are not
concerned with laughter. Rather, their focus is the laughable
object, whether conceived of as the comic, the humorous, jokes, the
grotesque, the ridiculous, or the ludicrous. In Laughter, Anca
Parvulescu proposes a return to the materiality of the burst of
laughter itself. She sets out to uncover an archive of laughter,
inviting us to follow its rhythms and listen to its tones.
Historically, laughter-especially the passionate burst of
laughter-has often been a faux pas. Manuals for conduct, abetted by
philosophical treatises and literary and visual texts, warned
against it, offering special injunctions to ladies to avoid jollity
that was too boisterous. Returning laughter to the history of the
passions, Parvulescu anchors it at the point where the history of
the grimacing face meets the history of noise. In the civilizing
process that leads to laughter's "falling into disrepute," as
Nietzsche famously put it, we can see the formless, contorted face
in laughter being slowly corrected into a calm, social smile. How
did the twentieth century laugh? Parvulescu points to a gallery of
twentieth-century laughers and friends of laughter, arguing that it
is through Georges Bataille that the century laughed its most
distinct laugh. In Bataille's wake, laughter becomes the passion at
the heart of poststructuralism. Looking back at the century from
this vantage point, Parvulescu revisits four of its most
challenging projects: modernism, the philosophical avant-gardes,
feminism, and cinema. The result is an overview of the twentieth
century as seen through the laughs that burst at some of its most
convoluted junctures.
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