東華大學圖書館 |

語系: 繁體中文

說明(常見問題)

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

登入

回首頁

切換: 標籤 | MARC模式 | ISBD

Laughter and the politics of affect ...

Amanbayeva, Sabina.

FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Laughter and the politics of affect in early modern English literature, 1590-1610.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Laughter and the politics of affect in early modern English literature, 1590-1610./
作者:	Amanbayeva, Sabina.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
面頁冊數:	276 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International79-09A.
標題:	Modern literature. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3718315
ISBN:	9781321981056

Laughter and the politics of affect in early modern English literature, 1590-1610.
Amanbayeva, Sabina.

Laughter and the politics of affect in early modern English literature, 1590-1610. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 276 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2015.

The dissertation seeks to problematize the definition of laughter as an object of critical study using a variety of early modern affect theories. Contrary to the predominant paradigm of early modern historical phenomenology-articulated in the works by Gail Kern Paster, Bruce R. Smith, and Mary Floyd-Wilson, among others-that emotions are stable objects whose meaning can be excavated through historical research, this dissertation argues that what we find are competing affect theories as to what "laughter" is. Relying on affect theory by Lauren Berlant, Brian Massumi, and others, the dissertation shows that laughter poses an immediate problem of definition, which scrambles easy distinctions between physiology and psychology, individual and social group. In addition to this theoretical argument-that we do not know exactly what laughter consists of-this dissertation also makes a historical argument about shifting definitions of laughter in the period. I argue that the period between 1590 and 1610 witnessed a changing definition of laughter: the earlier texts define laughter in accord with the Galenic humoral framework, where laughter is understood as an excess of vitality that characterizes the bodies of young boys, lascivious women, and the bodies of other marginal members in the community. But as we move into the seventeenth century, the definition of laughter starts to change: thus, city comedies by Thomas Middleton and Ben Jonson, or pamphlets like Thomas Dekker's The Gull's Hornbook portray laughter not as an involuntary impulse of the body, but as a form of judgment that needs to be cultivated. In these later texts, laughter becomes linked to a mode of urban sociability and the figure of the gallant. The project thus seeks to unmoor laughter from a specific object or body and show how its meaning gets re-assigned to a different set of texts and practices in the early seventeenth century.

ISBN: 9781321981056Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122750
Modern literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Affect

Laughter and the politics of affect in early modern English literature, 1590-1610.
LDR:03172nmm a2200421 4500 001 2402447
005 20241028051838.5
006 m o d
007 cr#unu||||||||
008 251215s2015 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9781321981056
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI3718315
035 $a (MiAaPQ)udel:11976
035 $a AAI3718315
035 $a 2402447
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Amanbayeva, Sabina. $3 3772679
245 1 0 $a Laughter and the politics of affect in early modern English literature, 1590-1610.
260 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, $c 2015
300 $a 276 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09, Section: A.
500 $a Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
500 $a Advisor: Yates, Julian.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2015.
520 $a The dissertation seeks to problematize the definition of laughter as an object of critical study using a variety of early modern affect theories. Contrary to the predominant paradigm of early modern historical phenomenology-articulated in the works by Gail Kern Paster, Bruce R. Smith, and Mary Floyd-Wilson, among others-that emotions are stable objects whose meaning can be excavated through historical research, this dissertation argues that what we find are competing affect theories as to what "laughter" is. Relying on affect theory by Lauren Berlant, Brian Massumi, and others, the dissertation shows that laughter poses an immediate problem of definition, which scrambles easy distinctions between physiology and psychology, individual and social group. In addition to this theoretical argument-that we do not know exactly what laughter consists of-this dissertation also makes a historical argument about shifting definitions of laughter in the period. I argue that the period between 1590 and 1610 witnessed a changing definition of laughter: the earlier texts define laughter in accord with the Galenic humoral framework, where laughter is understood as an excess of vitality that characterizes the bodies of young boys, lascivious women, and the bodies of other marginal members in the community. But as we move into the seventeenth century, the definition of laughter starts to change: thus, city comedies by Thomas Middleton and Ben Jonson, or pamphlets like Thomas Dekker's The Gull's Hornbook portray laughter not as an involuntary impulse of the body, but as a form of judgment that needs to be cultivated. In these later texts, laughter becomes linked to a mode of urban sociability and the figure of the gallant. The project thus seeks to unmoor laughter from a specific object or body and show how its meaning gets re-assigned to a different set of texts and practices in the early seventeenth century.
590 $a School code: 0060.
650 4 $a Modern literature. $3 2122750
650 4 $a British & Irish literature. $3 3284317
653 $a Affect
653 $a City comedy
653 $a Drama
653 $a Early modern literature
653 $a Laughter
653 $a Shakespeare
690 $a 0298
690 $a 0593
710 2 $a University of Delaware. $b English. $3 3178100
773 0 $t Dissertations Abstracts International $g 79-09A.
790 $a 0060
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2015
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3718315