Laughing Matter: Representations of Death and Absence in Modern French Poetry

by Marcel Gutwirth

Why do we laugh? Do we really want to know why? We are torn between desire to understand the joyous human response of laughter and reluctance to expose the secret of our spontaneity to the rigors of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801427835
• ISBN13: 9780801427831
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.