A Certain Laughter: Sherwood Anderson's Experiment in Form
2006; Edinburgh University Press; Volume: 2; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3366/e2041102209000240
ISSN2041-1022
Autores Tópico(s)Crime and Detective Fiction Studies
ResumoJudith Brown (Indiana University - Bloomington) reads Sherwood Anderson's 1925 novel “Dark Laughter” in the context of the explosion of theoretical treatments of laughter that emerge in the early 1920s in the traumatic wake of the Great War. Recuperating the disruptive potential of modernist laughter, Brown reads the novel through the scene of redemptive collective laughter that concludes Preston Sturges' film “Sullivan's Travels” (1941). Whereas Sturges offers the salve of a collective laughter as a fantasy of nondifferentiation from laughing others, Andersons dark laughter preserves the uncertain play of difference, undermining the alleged superiority of the laughter.
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