Laughter: Notes on a Passion Parvulescu Anca
Laughter: Notes on a Passion Parvulescu Anca Uncovering an archive of laughter, from the forbidden giggle to the explosive guffaw.Most of our theories of laughter are not concerned with laughter. In…
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Laughter: Notes on a Passion Parvulescu Anca
Uncovering an archive of laughter, from the forbidden giggle to the explosive guffaw.Most of our theories of laughter are not concerned with laughter. In Laughter, Anca Parvulescu proposes a return to the materiality of the burst of laughter itself. Rather, their focus is the laughable object, whether conceived of as the comic, the humorous, jokes, the grotesque, the ridiculous, or the ludicrous.
Historically, laughter--especially the passionate burst of laughter--has often been a faux pas. She sets out to uncover an archive of laughter, inviting us to follow its rhythms and listen to its tones. Manuals for conduct, abetted by philosophical treatises and literary and visual texts, warned against it, offering special injunctions to ladies to avoid jollity that was too boisterous.
Returning laughter to the history of the passions, Parvulescu anchors it at the point where
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