Comic Sense: Reading Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Philip Roth by Thomas Pughe (

Description: Comic Sense by Thomas Pughe " (Karl: 27) Such assessments of course challenge my view that the comic is in significant ways connected with what is innovative in postmodernist US-American fiction. Yet the term comic -or related terms like humour, parody, irony and so fort- is regularly and heavily employed in discussions or reviews of con temporary fiction. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This text aims to increase the readers understanding of the comic in the work of three major contemporary North American writers. It tries, on the one hand, to do justice to the specificity of the "oeuvre" of each of the writers it deals with and, on the other, to come to grips with the comic as a theoretical problem of the criticism of much contemporary fiction. The term "comic sense" implies both a quality of the fiction discusssed in this book and a particular way of reading this fiction. Pughe concentrates mainly on the texts of his three authors: Robert Coovers "A Night at the Movies" and "The Public Burning", Stanley Elkins "The Dick Gibson Show", "The Franchiser" and "The Magic Kingdom" and Philip Roths Zuckerman series. His readings are based on a reconsideration of traditional and modern theories of the comic and show that the literary significance of the texts discussed here is closely intertwined with the authors - and their readers - comic sense. Table of Contents One: Comic Sense and the Problem of Attitude.- Two: Robert Coover and The Comedy of Good & Bad Sport.- Three: Philip Roths Zuckerman Novels as a Comic "KÜnstler-Roman".- Four: Stanley Elkins Comic Passion.- Five: Conclusion.- Works Cited. Promotional Springer Book Archives Long Description The idea for this study came to me in the course of my reading of innova Details ISBN3764350237 Author Thomas Pughe Publisher Birkhauser Verlag AG Year 1994 ISBN-10 3764350237 ISBN-13 9783764350239 Format Paperback Imprint Birkhauser Verlag AG Subtitle Reading Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Philip Roth Place of Publication Basel Country of Publication Switzerland Short Title COMIC SENSE Language English Media Book Pages 197 DEWEY 813.5409 Series International Cooper Series in English Language and Literature Illustrations XIII, 197 p. DOI 10.1007/978-3-0348-7746-6 Audience Undergraduate Publication Date 1994-04-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:96392618;

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