“Strange laughter”: Post-Gothic Questions of Laughter and the Human in Samuel Beckett's Work
The laughter of Samuel Beckett's characters is frequently strange and unsettling. Characters laugh unpredictably, and the reader or spectator does not feel prompted to join them; when we do laugh in response to the Beckettian text, we are often shocked by our own lack of propriety. I examine la...
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Indiana University Press
2017
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