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Edward Lear's Feelings: Laughter

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Lear once spoke of 'this ludicrously whirligig life which one suffers from first and laughs at afterwards.' This programme studies the intertwining of the laughable and the lamentable in Lear's work, examining how serio-comic forms of expression explore mixed feelings.

Date Published: 15 February 2019
Contributors:
Matthew Bevis, Jasmine Jagger
In Collection(s): Edward Lear
Keywords:
laughter, sadness, comedy, suffering
Source:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Cite: Edward Lear's Feelings: Laughter by Matthew Bevis, Jasmine Jagger at https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/edward-lears-feelings-laughter. Published on 15 February 2019. Accessed on 25 December 2024.

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