Laughter and Power
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
European Connections
ISBN-10
3039105043
ISBN-13
9783039105045
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Imprint
Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 3rd, 2006
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
398 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 26.40 x 1.60 cms
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Laughter and power are here examined in a variety of contexts, ranging from the satires of Renaissance Humanism through to the polemics of contemporary journalism. How do the powerful use laughter as a cultural weapon which reinforces their position? How do the powerless use laughter as a last resort in their self-defence? Sixteenth-century intellectuals applied their satires to a campaign against intolerance. Seventeenth-century absolutism demanded of comedy that it serve its interests. Yet subversive humour survived, even at the court, and led through the Enlightenment to its apogee in the black humour of Sade. Twentieth-century experimental fiction owes that trend a conscious debt. Meanwhile an aesthetic tradition, represented here by Flaubert, Beckett and Queneau, incites a laughter which releases tension rather than raising awareness. As humour theorists, Bergson, Freud and Koestler help focus these concerns.
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