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Paperback. Explores the comic in the work of three North American writers. Pughe concentrates mainly on their texts: Robert Coover's "A Night at the Movies" and "The Public Burning"; Stanley Elkin's "The Dick Gibson Show", "The Franchiser" and "The Magic Kingdom"; and Philip Roth's Zuckerman series. Series: International Cooper Series in English Language & Literature. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 11. Weight in Grams: 411.
The idea for this study came to me in the course of my reading of innova tive US-American! fiction of the last three decades. I observed that much of it is cast in the comic mode - or, more precisely, that there seems to be in contemporary fiction an affinity between 'innovation' and 'the comic' and that this affinity, furthermore, appears to be characteristic of postmo dernism. It is obvious, at the same time, that comic has become an elusive and, more often than not, a disputable category. Frederick Karl, in his sur vey of American Fictions 1940-1980, maintains, for ... Read more
The idea for this study came to me in the course of my reading of innova tive US-American! fiction of the last three decades. I observed that much of it is cast in the comic mode - or, more precisely, that there seems to be in contemporary fiction an affinity between 'innovation' and 'the comic' and that this affinity, furthermore, appears to be characteristic of postmo dernism. It is obvious, at the same time, that comic has become an elusive and, more often than not, a disputable category. Frederick Karl, in his sur vey of American Fictions 1940-1980, maintains, for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
Series
International Cooper Series in English Language & Literature
Number of Pages
197
Place of Publication
Basel, Switzerland
ISBN
9783764350239
SKU
V9783764350239
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