Stability of Laughter - The Problem of Joy in Modernist Literature

About the author

James Nikopoulos is Associate Professor at Nazarbayev University.

Summary

A "sad and corrupt" age, a period of "crisis" and "upheaval"—what T.S. Eliot famously called "the panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." The Stability of Laughter explores how art unsettles the simplifications we revert to in our attempts to make sense of human history.

Product details

• Authors: James Nikopoulos, Nikopoulos James
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367663599
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66359-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HUMOR / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000