Stability of laughter, the: the problem of joy in modernist literature
Auteur :
Nikopoulos, James
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780367138561
Date de publication :
11 déc. 2018
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
498 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
A "sad and corrupt" age, a period of "crisis" and "upheaval"—what T.S. Eliot famously called "the panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." The Stability of Laughter explores how art unsettles the simplifications we revert to in our attempts to make sense of human history.