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...Thomas Harrison Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 Thomas Harrison LAUGHTER AND THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE M ark Twain, in The Diary of Adam and Eve, tells a funny story about the expulsion of our fore parents from the Garden of Eden. It was not an apple that caused the Fall...

... Baudelaire and the Shock of Laughter," published in Cathy Caruth's Trauma: Explorations in Memory, Kevin Newmark uses Baudelaire's poetry, as well as the essay "On the Essence of Laughter," to explore "what happens to our own thought when we turn to philosophy, as we eventually must, for an explanation...

... a complex articulation of poetry and the body, of text and history, together with a strategic use of laughter to deterritorialize, to render strange in unexpected ways, certain received, or authoritative, models of reading and writing poetry in the late Second Empire. Following Michel Foucault's suggestive...

... constantly trying to resist his attempts to civilise and educate them. The laughter of the children, which opens the novel, is perceived by the father as a direct attack not just on his cherished statuette and the complimentary remarks of his rather prim guest, but more generally on his own values...

... Misanthrope is unlikely ever to be dethroned from its place atop Molière’s grandes comédies morales , but surely remains among the most difficult to interpret. The depth, richness, and ambiguity of its protagonists are matched by its innovative structure, in which laughter itself is staged and problematized...

... is the means for the reader to recognize his identi- 7. For the very deep roots of the "unholy alliance" of hell and humor, of the comic principle of evil in art, of "the intimacy of laughter and evil in Christian art" in particular (Origen, Plotinus, Augustine on evil as non-Being, Boethius on the same notion...

... metaphors to describe his experience testifies to the survival of his need intellectually to master the outrage of "la colpa di essere nati" (Autoritratto 27).17 It is a need he cannot satisfy. The laughter Levi learns in Auschwitz is thus a serious and essential laughter, not merely the accidental laughter...

... traumas, which is central to neorealism's unresolved tension between ethical imperatives and formal innovation. Thomas Harrison's investigation of French and Italian versions of laughter turns to the philosophical dimensions of a subjectivity torn between aesthetic distance and moral urgency. Noting...

...-siecle through the period of the entre-deux-guerres for my graduate studies. Fascinated by the Surrealists and their aesthetic forbears, I sought out those places in literature where beauty and anger, fantasy and interrogation, laughter and revolt combined to initiate change-both aesthetic and socio...

... a forgiveness that is simultaneously lodged in and betrayed by language itself, that is always impending but never present, and that is therefore a source of unending struggle but also hope” (106)—or in any event, the hope-against-hope conveyed by laughter. I found this reading enormously suggestive and thought...

..., Greg, "Tempest in Another Time: Shakespeare, Greenaway, Celine," 15-32 Harris, Joseph, "Novel Upbringings: Education and Gender in Choisy and La Fayette," 3-14 Harrison, Thomas, "Laughter and the Tree of Knowledge," 501-15 Kilbane, Aimee, The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter, (Henri Murger), 101-6 Kotin...

... witty man, in all senses of the word. One who usually appeared to prefer laughter to crying, just like an earlier controversial French character, Alcofribas Nasier, a character we both loved, for whom "Ie rire, c'est Ie propre de l'homme." And that, despite the fact that he could easily reduce even...

..., yet his frailty and his secret (not to us) dependence on his beloved wife protect him from readerly laughter. Likewise in Desirada the narrative voice abstains from bantering to treat a doubly painful topic: protoincestuous sexual abuse and the failure of the mother. Conde agrees that this is a "sad...

... on a leash, anything at all in Theophile de Viau? Having grown up in New Jersey in the 1980s, I swore I had seen the last canto of the Chants de Maldoror enacted, but by then, the other students were roaring with laughter as Professor Riffaterre retained his position on stage left. It is difficult to speak...

... humaine . The human voice offers a resonance “qui en excède le signe,” as Bonnefoy has put it, whereas written language and its partitioning and conceptualizing tend to alienate us from the throbbing, pulsing experience of both self and other, substituting absence where livingness, laughter, feelable...

... of the tiny frogs that lived in the fountain and frequently got pulled up in the pail heavy with water. The family screamed with laughter when she announced with horror what had happened. She never forgave us. The Creuse is not for city slickers. You have to be, or act like you are, rough and tough-even...

... from the corner of their mouth into the bottom of the unan­i­mous fold, like buried laughter, is recast in comme le rire de l heure coulait alentour. It is the par­ ticu­ ­lar laughter of Mad­ em­ oi­selle Mallarmé s fan that flows not only around the rower s boat, but throughout this prose poem...

.... A ses yeux, Hughes consacrait son art a la defense de sa race. Ses grands themes etaient l'espoir de vaincre la discrimination, et l' Afrique. The Weary Blues, Not Without Laughter, et d'autres titres de lui etaient cites dans cet article22 . In 1932, des compte rendus des traductions de Banjo et Home...

... is Beautiful with a whole line of fiction films that thematize the impenetrabilities of surviving Nazi persecution through humor.5 In 3. Maurizio Viano's" Life is Beautiful: Reception, Allegory and Holocaust Laughter" thoroughly discusses the film's reception. 4. See, for example, Millicent Marcus, Me 10 dici...

... brings the feeling of loss into the world of the senses: For a long time I believed that writing meant dying, slowly dying, groping to unfold a shroud of sand or silk over things that one had felt trembling and pawing the ground. A burst of laughter-frozen. The beginnings of a sob-turned into stone...