In the Event of Laughter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Event of Laughter write by Alfie Bown. This book was released on 2018-11-15. In the Event of Laughter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as its pre-history and afterlives, In the Event of Laughter 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 why we 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. Making 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.
In the Event of Laughter
In the Event of Laughter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Event of Laughter write by Alfie Bown. This book was released on 2018-11-15. In the Event of Laughter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as its pre-history and afterlives, In the Event of Laughter 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 why we 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. Making 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.
The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh
The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh write by Helen Rutter. This book was released on 2021-08-03. The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When life is funny, make some jokes about it. Billy Plimpton has a big dream: to become a famous comedian when he grows up. He already knows a lot of jokes, but thinks he has one big problem standing in his way: his stutter. At first, Billy thinks the best way to deal with this is to . . . never say a word. That way, the kids in his new school won’t hear him stammer. But soon he finds out this is NOT the best way to deal with things. (For one thing, it’s very hard to tell a joke without getting a word out.) As Billy makes his way toward the spotlight, a lot of funny things (and some less funny things) happen to him. In the end, the whole school will know -- If you think you can hold Billy Plimpton back, be warned: The joke will soon be on you!
Surprised by Laughter
Surprised by Laughter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surprised by Laughter write by Terry Lindvall. This book was released on 2012-01-17. Surprised by Laughter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Surprised by Laughter looks at the career and writings of C. S. Lewis and discovers a man whose life and beliefs were sustained by joy and humor. All of his life, C. S. Lewis possessed a spirit of individuality. An atheist from childhood, he became a Christian as an adult and eventually knew international acclaim as a respected theologian. He was known worldwide for his works of fiction, especially the Chronicles of Narnia; and for his books on life and faith, including Mere Christianity, A Grief Observed, and Surprised by Joy. But perhaps the most visible difference in his life was his abiding sense of humor. It was through this humor that he often reached his readers and listeners, allowing him to effectively touch so many lives. Terry Lindvall takes an in-depth look at Lewis's joyful approach toward living, dividing his study of C. S. Lewis's wit into the four origins of laughter in Uncle Screwtape's eleventh letter to a junior devil in Lewis's The Screwtape Letters: joy, fun, the joke proper, and flippancy. Lindvall writes, "One bright and compelling feature we can see, sparking in his sunlight and dancing in his moonlight, is laughter. Yet it is not too large to see at once because it inhabited all Lewis was and did." Surprised by Laughter reveals a Lewis who enjoyed the gift of laughter, and who willingly shared that gift with others in order to spread his faith.
Studies of Laughter in Interaction
Studies of Laughter in Interaction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studies of Laughter in Interaction write by Phillip Glenn. This book was released on 2013-07-25. Studies of Laughter in Interaction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the nature, occurrence and uses of laugher in a range of different kinds of interactions across a variety of languages.
