Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy
Author:   Todd McGowan
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
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9780810135819


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 September 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy


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Author:   Todd McGowan
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
Imprint:   Northwestern University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9780810135819


ISBN 10:   0810135817
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 September 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Similar and the Dissimilar Lack and Excess Theory and Opposition Tragedy and Pathos Philosophy and the Finite Signification and Desire Distance and Proximity Outside and Inside Politics and Comedy Conclusion: Speculation and Levity

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Only a Joke Can Save Us offers a master class in psychoanalysis masquerading as a master class in comedy. McGowan's theory yields powerful, persuasive, original insights into examples as varied as classic cinema, Jewish jokes, Kierkegaard, and Shakespeare. This master class will be thoroughly enjoyed by philosophers, cultural critics, affect theorists, and psychoanalytic thinkers alike. - Anna Kornbluh, author of Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Realist Form


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Todd McGowan is an associate professor of film and television studies at the University of Vermont.

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