出版社：Editura Universităţii "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Iaşi
摘要：Unlaughter is a strange deficiency affecting some characters featured in narratives and plays that belong to the fabulous genre, such as The Green Bird, included in Laura Gonzenbach’s collection of Sicilian fairy tales, different versions (e.g., Burton, Mardrus) of The Book of the Thousand Nights and A Night, Giambattista Basile’s Pentamerone, Carlo Gozzi’s Love of Three Oranges, or Mihai Eminescu’s Prince Charming Born of Tears. When induced by loss, love sorrows or unfulfilled desires, the absence of laughter is but a normal response to unfavourable events or hostile circumstances. Otherwise felt as very unspecific to (in fact, irreconcilable with) human nature, when no apparent cause can explain it unlaughter is interpreted as a sign of disease in fairy tales. Significantly or not, this mysterious, puzzling malady exclusively affects aristocrats, i.e., people having plenty of time for reflection (if not being intellectually superior and/or cultivated).
关键词：the fabulous genre; unlaughing hero; anhedonia; disease; cure; a rhetoric of unlaughter; restoration
