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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53287677 Title: The irresponsible self : on laughter and the novel Author: James Wood Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. ISBN/ISSN: 0374177376 9780374177379 OCLC:53287677

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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, 2004.
Edition/Format:	Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	James Wood Find more information about:
ISBN:	0374177376 9780374177379
OCLC Number:	53287677
Description:	viii, 312 p. ; 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 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.
Responsibility:	James Wood.
More information:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description Table of contents

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