Animal Humor and the Darwinian Absurd
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12879341 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathleen Hart (0000-0002-4729-9017, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 477-485 |
| Publication date | 2012-08-24 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-9292 • E-ISSN: 1740-9306 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17409292.2012.711635 |
| OpenAlex | W2095233466 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
Using Samuel Beckett's Watt as an exemplar, I examine the evolutionary underpinnings of absurd experience in relation to fiction, humor, and animal imagery. Humor in absurdist literature turns on the fundamental incongruities we are hard-wired to experience, making the truth of our animal being less disturbing
Absurdism · Aesthetics · Art · Darwinism · Epistemology · Psychoanalysis · Relation (database · Computer Science · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · Humor Studies and Applications · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |