{"product_id":"posthumorism-frances-mcdonald-9781350264618","title":"Posthumorism: The Modernist Affect of Laughter","description":"Examining the multiple non-humorous meanings of laughter, this book explores a unique strain of laughter in modernism that is without humor, without humans, and without humanism. Providing a bold new theory of modernism's affects, \u003ci\u003ePosthumorism\u003c\/i\u003echronicles the scattered emergence of a particular strain of humorless laughter in twentieth-century literature, film, and philosophy. \u003cbr\u003eFrom William James's trippy experiments with laughing gas to the wide-open suicide shriek of Major Kong in Stanley Kubrick's \u003ci\u003eDr. Strangelove\u003c\/i\u003e, modernity is strewn with examples of such laughter - defined by its ability to \"crack up\" and destroy, whilst opening new horizons of perception.\u003cbr\u003eExamining the creative operation of posthumorist laughter, this book explores how various stylists of the form-from Nathanael West and Kurt Vonnegut to Georges Bataille and H駘鈩e Cixous-use it as a tool to unsettle, reconfigure the individual human, and shape different forms of humanist discourse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frances McDonald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 135026461X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350264618\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 01\/27\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d","brand":"Frances McDonald","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43944623341823,"sku":"9781350264618","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fd31872f-e2fd-4fce-8637-e24560e7813e.jpg?v=1681504443","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/posthumorism-frances-mcdonald-9781350264618","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}