The Comic in the Midst of Tragedy's Grief with Tig Notaro, Hannah Gadsby, and Others

IF 1 2区 艺术学 0 ART
CYNTHIA WILLETT, JULIE WILLETT
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Abstract

The function of the comic in the midst of tragedy is not clear. After all, is it simply comic relief that wounded nations, communities, or individuals seek? Tragedy has long been cast as memory and mourning while comedy offers for the masses a Nietzschean moment of joyful forgetting and for the Stoic mind a measure of transcendence from our grief. The latter view came into prominence for modern American culture with the nineteenth-century satirist Mark Twain, who wrote that “the secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow,” which has been interpreted through the often-quoted formula: comedy is tragedy plus time. The assumption is that we need some distance emotionally in order to mock or transcend the tragic. While we grant the humor of transcendence can produce some momentary relief through emotional distance, we wonder if there might be another way that humor can deal with suffering? Popular psychology often speaks of five stages of grief, and while that progression seems too linear and simplistic, we find that the now much more inclusive comic stage has something to offer their audiences struggling to make sense of a volatile world.

与蒂格·诺塔罗、汉娜·加兹比和其他人一起创作的《悲剧中的喜剧》
喜剧在悲剧中的作用尚不清楚。毕竟,这仅仅是受伤的国家、社区或个人寻求的喜剧救济吗?长期以来,悲剧一直被视为记忆和哀悼,而喜剧为大众提供了尼采式的快乐遗忘时刻,为斯多葛派的思想提供了一种超越悲伤的手段。后一种观点随着19世纪讽刺作家马克·吐温(Mark Twain)在现代美国文化中崭露头角,他写道,“幽默的秘密来源不是快乐,而是悲伤”,这可以通过经常引用的公式来解释:喜剧是悲剧加上时间。假设我们在情感上需要一些距离,以便嘲笑或超越悲剧。当我们承认超越的幽默可以通过情感距离产生一些短暂的解脱时,我们想知道幽默是否还有另一种方式可以处理痛苦?流行心理学经常将悲伤分为五个阶段,虽然这个阶段似乎过于线性和简单,但我们发现,现在更具包容性的喜剧阶段可以为观众提供一些东西,让他们努力理解一个动荡的世界。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism publishes current research articles, symposia, special issues, and timely book reviews in aesthetics and the arts. The term aesthetics, in this connection, is understood to include all studies of the arts and related types of experience from a philosophic, scientific, or other theoretical standpoint. The arts are taken to include not only the traditional forms such as music, literature, landscape architecture, dance, painting, architecture, sculpture, and other visual arts, but also more recent additions such as photography, film, earthworks, performance and conceptual art, the crafts and decorative arts, contemporary digital innovations, and other cultural practices, including work and activities in the field of popular culture.
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