{"product_id":"in-the-event-of-laughter-alfie-bown-9781501364136","title":"In the Event of Laughter: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy","description":"Using 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alfie Bown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501364138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501364136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.35d","brand":"Alfie Bown","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43941088329983,"sku":"9781501364136","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_eea9c727-08e7-4b49-acd4-52d50d3f520d.jpg?v=1681450840","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-the-event-of-laughter-alfie-bown-9781501364136","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}