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The irresponsible self : on laughter and the novel
- Title
- The irresponsible self : on laughter and the novel / James Wood.
- Author
- Wood, James, 1965-
- Publication
- London : Jonathan Cape, 2004.
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Details
- Description
- 312 p.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes index.
- 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 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 -- Coetzec'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.
- Call Number
- JFD 04-11595
- ISBN
- 0224064509
- OCLC
- 55202858
- Author
- Wood, James, 1965-
- Title
- The irresponsible self : on laughter and the novel / James Wood.
- Imprint
- London : Jonathan Cape, 2004.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 04-11595