{"product_id":"in-the-event-of-laughter-psychoanalysis-literature-and-comedy-paperback","title":"In the Event of Laughter: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlfie Bown\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEsther Rashkin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMari Ruti\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as its pre-history and afterlives, \u003ci\u003eIn the Event of Laughter\u003c\/i\u003e argues for a new framework for discussing laughter. Responding to a tradition of 'comedy studies' that has been interested only in the causes of laughter (in \u003ci\u003ewhy \u003c\/i\u003ewe laugh), it proposes a different relationship between laughter and causality. Ultimately it argues that laughter is both cause and effect, troubling chronological time and asking for a more nuanced way of conceiving the relationship between subjects and their laughter than existing theories have accounted for. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaking this visible via psychoanalytic ideas of retroactivity, Alfie Bown explores how laughter - far from being a mere response to a stimulus - changes the relationship between the present, the past and the future. Bown investigates this hypothesis in relation to a range of comic texts from the 'history of laughter, ' discussing Chaucer, Shakespeare, Kafka and Chaplin, as well as lesser-known but vital figures from the comic genre.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlfie Bown\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Playstation Dreamworld \u003c\/i\u003e(2017) and \u003ci\u003eEnjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism \u003c\/i\u003e(2015). He is editor of \u003ci\u003eEveryday Analysis \u003c\/i\u003eand writes for \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 28, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47501683392690,"sku":"9781501364136","price":84.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/d69363d6d82ad1fa6d5918e488080dc7.webp?v=1779447464","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/in-the-event-of-laughter-psychoanalysis-literature-and-comedy-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}