{"product_id":"9781350264618","title":"Posthumorism The Modernist Affect of Laughter","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePosthumorism\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe Modernist Affect of Laughter\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFrances McDonald\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Modern \/ 20th Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamining the multiple non-humorous meanings of laughter, this book explores a unique strain of laughter in modernism that is without humor, without humans, and without humanism. Providing a bold new theory of modernism's affects, \u003ci\u003ePosthumorism \u003c\/i\u003echronicles the scattered emergence of a particular strain of humorless laughter in twentieth-century literature, film, and philosophy. \u003cbr\u003eFrom William James's trippy experiments with laughing gas to the wide-open suicide shriek of Major Kong in Stanley Kubrick's \u003ci\u003eDr. Strangelove\u003c\/i\u003e, modernity is strewn with examples of such laughter – defined by its ability to “crack up” and destroy, whilst opening new horizons of perception.\u003cbr\u003eExamining the creative operation of posthumorist laughter, this book explores how various stylists of the form-from Nathanael West and Kurt Vonnegut to Georges Bataille and Hélène Cixous-use it as a tool to unsettle, reconfigure the individual human, and shape different forms of humanist discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFrances McDonald is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Louisville, USA. Her research has appeared in \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePost45\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the co-editor of \u003ci\u003ethresholds\u003c\/i\u003e, a digital journal for critical\/creative scholarship.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e27 January 2022\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350264618\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e192\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e15.84\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63033222168716,"sku":"9781350264618","price":117.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_d37788aa-158c-437a-b14a-4da728bceb00.jpg?v=1792189347","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350264618","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}