1st Edition
The Stability of Laughter The Problem of Joy in Modernist Literature
By James Nikopoulos
Copyright 2019
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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A "sad and corrupt" age, a period of "crisis" and "upheaval"—what T.S. Eliot famously summed up as "the panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." Modernism has always been characterized by its self-conscious sense of suffering. Why, then, was it so obsessed with laughter? From Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Bergson and Freud to Pirandello, Beckett, Hughes, Barnes, and Joyce, no... Read more
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Biography
James Nikopoulos is Associate Professor at Nazarbayev University.
