Table of contents

The rainbow of enjoyment

From elementary laughter to the swing of the human spirit

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

11-14

The feast of life, joy and love

The laughter and smile of the soul

Marlies Kronegger

3-31

The Merchant of Venice: a triumph of discrepancy and mirth

Judd Hubert

33-41

The smile of the mind: from Molière to Marivaux

Cynthia Osowiec Ruoff

43-56

Reveries of well-being in the Shih-p'in

From psychology to ontology

Louise Sundararajan

57-70

Bergsonian laughter in Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah

Merrill Horton

71-76

G. Cabrera Infante and Lewis Carroll

The aesthetics of laughter in contemporary Latin-American literature

Nancy Campi De Castro

77-85

Bracketing theory in Leonardo's five grotesque heads

Patricia Trutty-Coohill

87-102

Not funny

Metaphor, dream and decapitation

Rob Baum

105-125

Exploring aesthetic discomfort in the experience of the comic and the tragic

John Marston's Antonio and Mellida and Antonio's revenge

Jadwiga Smith

127-136

Cannon aspirin

Wallace Stevens' defense of pleasure

Patricia Rae

137-152

The comedy of the false apperception

Wilde, Maugham, and Stoppard

Raymond J. Wilson

153-164

Irony as a phenomenological technique

Māra Stafecka

165-172

Philosophy, literature, and laughter

Notes on an ontology of the moment

Lawrence Kimmel

175-184

Comic rhythms in Leonardo da Vinci

Patricia Trutty-Coohill

185-202

Plastic expression and intuition of being in Paul Tillich's theology

Velga Vevere

203-208

Laughter and enjoyment

La Fontaine and Fragonard

Mary E. Mccullough

209-226

Endgame: Beckett’s oriental subtext and the prison of consciousness

James Sipple

229-235

Language and enjoyment — Heidegger and Eliot

Bernadette Prochaska

237-245

T. S. Eliot and metaphysical laughter

A phenomenology of reading

William Melaney

247-255

Joyless laughter: Sophocles — Hesse — Beckett

Hans Rudnick

257-265

Inter-relation between music and literature and between silence and music in the novels by J. M. G. Le Clézio

Isabelle Gillet

269-280

The unbearable lightness of being

Entr'acte as comedic interlude

Giovanna Costantini

281-292

Lu Xun's allegory of realism

Psychology and the aims of writing

Mao Chen

293-299

Naissance du poème, naissance au poème

La fabrique du pré de Francis Ponge

Serge Meitinger

301-317

Index of names