Laughter and Power by John Parkin
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.-
Hear the Tap, Feel the Scratch
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Power and Subjectivity in the Late Work of Roland Barthes and Pier Paolo Pasolini
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'Keeping the Sources Pure'
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Formless
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Surrealism
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Depicting Desire
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European Intertexts
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She's Leaving Home
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Borges and Dante
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Making Sense
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After Intimacy
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Understanding Our Selves
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Re-reading Pio Baroja and English Literature
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Entre mélancolie et connaissance; Réception créatrice de Proust en Italie
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Gesture in French Post-New Wave Cinema
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Viva Pinter
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Nations, Traditions and Cross-Cultural Identities
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Readers, Writers, Salonnieres
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Songbirds on the Literary Stage
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Existentialist Comics
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Leonardo Sciascia’s French Authors
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The Pleasure in/of the Text
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Nomadic Literature
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Lingua Barbara or the Mystery of the Other
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Narrating the Self in Early Modern Europe L'Ecriture De Soi Dans L'Europe Moderne
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The Epistolary Muse
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The Fausts of Gerard de Nerval
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Voices of Dissent
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Identity and Cultural Translation: Writing across the Borders of Englishness
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Symphonie der Worte
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Translators, Interpreters, Mediators
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Writing on the Move
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The Tragic Discourse L'Experience Du Tragique
The Editors: John Parkin has lectured at Bristol University on French literature, language and culture since his appointment in 1972. He has published on a range of sixteenth-century authors, especially Rabelais, as well as editing a volume entitled French Humour (1999) and writing a study of Humour Theorists of the Twentieth Century (1997).
John Phillips is Professor of French Literature at London Metropolitan University. He has published widely on aspects of both eighteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, especially the French New Novel and the Marquis de Sade. Books include Nathalie Sarraute: Metaphor, Fairy-tale and the Feminine of the Text (1994), Forbidden Fictions: Pornography and Censorship in Twentieth-century French Literature (1999), Sade: The Libertine Novels (2001), How To Read Sade (2005), and The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction (2005).
John Phillips is Professor of French Literature at London Metropolitan University. He has published widely on aspects of both eighteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, especially the French New Novel and the Marquis de Sade. Books include Nathalie Sarraute: Metaphor, Fairy-tale and the Feminine of the Text (1994), Forbidden Fictions: Pornography and Censorship in Twentieth-century French Literature (1999), Sade: The Libertine Novels (2001), How To Read Sade (2005), and The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction (2005).
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| ISBN 13 | 9783039105045 |
| ISBN 10 | 3039105043 |
| Title | Laughter and Power |
| Author | John Phillips |
| Series | European Connections |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Peter Lang AG |
| Year published | 2006-03-03 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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