Laughter
Laughter
- Anca ParvulescuAnca ParvulescuWashington University in St. Louis
Summary
Following Mikhail Bakhtin’s influential study Rabelais and His World, a generation of scholars have thought of laughter as subversive—of norms, institutions, religion, gender. The literary canon, however, is ripe with situations in which characters refrain from laughing at certain objects.
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- North American Literatures
- Literary Theory
- Western European Literatures
