An edition of The irresponsible self
(2005)
The irresponsible self
on laughter and the novel
1st Picador ed.
by Wood, James
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The irresponsible self: on laughter and the novel
2005, Picador
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- 1st Picador ed.
0312424604 9780312424602
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Table of 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 problem of information
Salman Rushdie's Nobu novel
Monica Ali's novelties
Coatzee'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.
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