What's funny? Terry Eagleton on Humour

Описание: Whether sassing Saussure, larking with Lukács or having a jaff with Julia Kristeva, a sharp sense of humour has been a characteristic of all Terry Eagleton’s work as a literary theorist and critic. Now, in Humour (Yale), he casts his penetrating eye over wit more widely. Why do we laugh? Is humour subversive, or can it defuse dissent? Can we define comedy?

There were some great questions for Terry, starting here: 25:27

Eagleton was speaking at the London Review Bookshop on 10 June 2019.

Read Eagleton's extremely funny piece about the Earl of Portsmouth in the LRB: https://lrb.me/eagletonpieceyt

Read more Eagleton in the LRB: https://lrb.me/eagletonyt

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