Posthumorism (ebook) by Frances McDonald, McDonald

Posthumorism ebook

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Examining the multiple non-humorous meanings of laughter, this book explores a unique strain of laughter in modernism that is without humor, without humans, and without humanism. Providing a bold new theory of modernism's affects, Posthumorism chronicles the scattered emergence of a particular strain of humorless laughter in twentieth-century literature, film, and philosophy. From William James...
Ebook 265,81 DKK
Authors Frances McDonald, McDonald (author)
Published 27 January 2022
Length 192 pages
Genres Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Language English
Format pdf
DRM LCP
ISBN 9781350264625
Examining the multiple non-humorous meanings of laughter, this book explores a unique strain of laughter in modernism that is without humor, without humans, and without humanism. Providing a bold new theory of modernism's affects, Posthumorism chronicles the scattered emergence of a particular strain of humorless laughter in twentieth-century literature, film, and philosophy. From William James's trippy experiments with laughing gas to the wide-open suicide shriek of Major Kong in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, modernity is strewn with examples of such laughter defined by its ability to crack up and destroy, whilst opening new horizons of perception.Examining the creative operation of posthumorist laughter, this book explores how various stylists of the form-from Nathanael West and Kurt Vonnegut to Georges Bataille and H l ne Cixous-use it as a tool to unsettle, reconfigure the individual human, and shape different forms of humanist discourse.