{"product_id":"posthumorism-frances-mcdonald-9781350264656","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 Hélène 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 1350264652\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350264656\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 07\/27\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.41d","brand":"Frances McDonald","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47425197768959,"sku":"9781350264656","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3d937eca-3f7e-4ff7-9a11-569e4a37c4eb.jpg?v=1761537683","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/posthumorism-frances-mcdonald-9781350264656","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}