The Irresponsible Self : : on Laughter and the Novel
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Introduction : comedy and the irresponsible self -- 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 -- The real Mr. Biswas -- V.S. Pritchett and English comedy -- Henry Green's England.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: 312 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0374177376 :
SUBJECTS
Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Comedy.