What's funny? Terry Eagleton on Humour
London Review BookshopWhether sassing Saussure, larking with Lukács or having a jaff with Julia Kristeva, a sharp sense of humour has been a characteristic of all Terry Eagleton’s work as a literary theorist and critic. Now, in Humour (Yale), he casts his penetrating eye over wit more widely. Why do we laugh? Is humour