Rire et poésie
Laughter and Poetry

Summary/Abstract: Our purpose in the present analysis is to approach two cultural gestures pertaining to two different fields of study: poetry and laughter in its largest sense, without focusing on its different, so various forms. We are therefore staying at a crossroads of literature, on the one hand, and cultural anthropology and philosophy, on the other, borrowing mainly from Vladimir Jankélévitch our threads of argument for the latter segment. Our approach is meant to briefly expose some similarities between these two deeply human cultural attitudes, through the prism of one dimension they share, i.e. freedom and divergence in relation to a behavioural code that one could label as neutral.

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