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...Robert St. Clair Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 Robert St. Clair LAUGHING MATTER(S): POLITICS AND POETICS OF THE (UTOPIAN) BODY IN RIMBAUD'S LES EFFARES1 Man corps, cette forme pensive . .. Valery Le fait du corps "C'est epatant comme ~a a du chien," writes Rimbaud...

... was basking in the sight of a phenomenon they have named "Niagara Falls" when suddenly he had the "radiant thought" of water tumbling upwards. And I was just about to kill myself with laughing at it when all nature broke loose in war and death, and I had to flee for my life. "There," she said with triumph...

... with him laughing and saying: Well, you have to be the first person who says she s moved to Harvard to be closer to her grandchildren! His warmth, wit, sense of humor, self-­ deprecating irony, abiding curiosity, and genuine interest in diff­ere­ nt points of view created the fabled aura that touched all...

... that sets the stage for Rabelais's comedy of evil and incongruity. Rabelais shows us this principle, and makes us laugh at it, in his narrative portrayal of established human roles or social patterns which be- 4. Simone Weil, "Morale et litterature," Cahiers du Sud, 263(1941), 40-41. 5. Quotations are from...

... tale about the wasted existence that the narrator, for his part, now resolves to try to convert into literature. Undertaking this task will give him the last laugh relative to his high society companions, and their failure to grasp their own futility makes them especially apt targets for his final...

... their towers and fell asleep in enchanted palaces in the woods. Young princes galloped on horseback through nameless streets. Oaks muttered and herbs revived the dead. Ogres sat on the threshold of caves that lead underground. Laughing fairies passed by, satisfying wishes or cursing. In these tales, we...

... began laughing. Hunter College ...

... and my parents laugh, I often uttered this sentence at home after dinner in a stilted, ghostlike voice. On the topic of ghosts, at that time, in awe of Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet , I carried in my satchel a copy of Shakespeare’s play in Romanian translation, and read and reread it at school, holding...

... rationalized"; in contrast, from Leopardi to Pirandello, laughter becomes "laughter at despair" so that the sorrow of knowledge, ostensibly the original sin, becomes calling knowledge itself into question. Most important, this "laughability of laughing" does not lead to a further sense of order and superiority...

... the sunshine, see. And I broke my arm . He points left-handed at his right elbow: It doesn’t hurt except the elbow feels a little funky if I fall . Hey —he interrupts himself— I think you could still have a cookie if you wanted one . It’s me and my friend Patty, and we laugh because how else...

... sense when language serves increasingly evacuated norms. No one, of course, is laughing at the conclusion. We see Célimène’s salon deserted by the chorus of rieurs , Alceste exiting toward his desert destination, Philinte and Éliante setting off not to pronounce “I do” in celebration...

...” and comparing him to her ex-boyfriend. Everybody laughs. I do not get it; I do not understand this word. They explain it to me. I am flabbergasted. In the flash of an instant, through this young woman’s voice, her recollection of a toxic personal romantic relationship erupted and tore through the memory...

...? What do their daily lives look like? What are their desires, fears, and struggles? What are their beliefs and political dreams? What makes them laugh or cry? Are they that obsessed with France? Where do they come from and why do they behave as they do? And finally, what languages do they speak...

... . . . I see the cook, our cook laughing and gay. The big tailor s table where father would sit and work one leg crossed over the other and humming a Jewish tune. Mother, bent over the sewing machine, would accompany him with the monotonous tapping of the machine. And the big work table, which I made use...

...' landmark essay, "The Laugh of the Medusa," ranks at once among both the most well-known and the most virulent condemnations of the male's usurpation of semiotic primacy. Cixous contends that this situation has produced highly deleterious effects for women and their ability to write their own stories: Men...

...; but then perhaps I lack the Catholic novelist s discerning eye.) Albert Camus s response was at once less prurient and more to the point: You have made a ­laughing-­stock of the French male, he told Beauvoir. The author herself told Schwarzer that when the book came out, people expressed surprise at seeing her...

... of the many different Jewish communities he dealt with after coming North. The gender barriers prohibiting relations between the sexes among the Ultra Orthodox are not without echoes in the rules forbidding racial mixing in apartheid cultures, and just as shocking to secular liberals. Although we laugh...

... Cixous famously critiques the capitalist patriarchal political economy with its "capitalist machinery" for producing knowledge that censors women's voices and experiences via the control of publishing houses and other platforms of self-expression (877). She writes in "The Laugh of the Medusa": Woman must...

... ("Lancelot's Shame ADULTERY IN LE CHEVALIER DE LA CHARRETE 143 rejected him (4284-94).24 The reactions of the surrogate audiences within the romance provide clues that we should not take these scenes too seriously,25 for the various witnesses to Lancelot's suicide attempts laugh at the hero's lovesick behavior...

.... Turning to Watrin's toilette, she archly avows that "Nos Parisiennes ne seront peut-etre pas fachees de connaitre Ie costume de grande tenue des dames de la Praya" (90); in other words, she is inviting her readers to share her subjective position looking and perhaps laughing at the badly dressed foreigner...