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The irresponsible self : on laughter and the novel
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The irresponsible self : on laughter and the novel

Author: James Wood
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st Picador edView all editions and formats
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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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