"The pleasure of fiends": Degenerate Laughter in Stoker's Dracula
I wish to suggest that in order to study laughter in horror fiction we must move beyond the paradigm that equates laughter with comedy. As humour critic Marcel Gutwirth notes, "laughter is not all bounty: it has its dark, its killing side... violence of some degree may well be of its essence, t...
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Autor principal: | Mackenzie Bartlett |
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University of Edinburgh
2006
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