{"product_id":"in-the-event-of-laughter-psychoanalysis-literature-and-comedy-9781501364136","title":"In the Event of Laughter: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alfie Bown\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Comparative Literature\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.","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45084505505943,"sku":"9781501364136","price":4320.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781501364136.webp?v=1767898384","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/in-the-event-of-laughter-psychoanalysis-literature-and-comedy-9781501364136","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}