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The irresponsible self : on laughter and the novel

Call Number

  • 809 W876.1 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

Physical Description

viii, 312 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Contents

  • Introduction : comedy and the irresponsible self --Don Quixote's Old and New Testaments
  • Shakespeare and the pathos of rambling
  • How Shakespeare's 'irresponsibility' saved Coleridge
  • Dostoevsky's God
  • Isaac Babel and the dangers of exaggeration
  • Saltykov-Shchedrin's subversion of hypocrisy
  • Anna Karenina and characterisation
  • Italo Svevo's unreliable comedy
  • Giovanni Verga's comic sympathy
  • Joseph Roth's empire of signs
  • Bohumil Harabal's comic world
  • J.F. Powers and the priests
  • Hysterical realism
  • Jonathan Franzen and the 'social novel'
  • Tom Wolfe's shallowness and the problem of information
  • Salman Rushdie's nobu novel
  • Monica Ali's novelties
  • Saul Bellow's comic style
  • Real Mr. Biswas
  • V.S. Pritchett and English comedy
  • Henry Green's England.

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