Laughter, literature, violence, 1840–1930
Auteur :
Taylor, Jonathan
Éditeur :
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN :
9783030114121
Date de publication :
22 févr. 2019
Dimensions :
21,0 x 14,8 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Suisse
It does so in relation to philosophy, politics, and key nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary texts, by Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Gosse, Wyndham Lewis and Katherine Mansfield – texts which explore the far reaches of Schadenfreude, and so-called ‘superiority theories’ of laughter, pushing these theories to breaking point.