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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James Wood |
| ISBN: | 0312424604 9780312424602 |
| OCLC Number: | 58650157 |
| Description: | xii, 320 p. ; 21 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 characterization -- Italo Svevo's unreliable comedy -- Giovanni Verga's comic sympathy -- Joseph Roth's empire of signs -- Bohumil Hrabal's comic world -- J.F. Powers and the priests -- Hysterical realism -- Jonathan Franzen and the "social novel" -- Tom Wolfe's shallowness, and the trouble with information -- Salman Rushdie's nobu novel -- Monica Ali's novelties -- Coetzee's disgrace: a few skeptical thoughts -- Saul Bellow's comic style -- The real Mr. Biswas -- V.S. Pritchett and English comedy -- Henry Green's England -- A long day at the Chocolate Bar Factory: David Bezmozgis's compassionate irony. |
| Responsibility: | James Wood. |
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