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Description: Comic Sense : Reading Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Philip Roth, Paperback by Pughe, Thomas, ISBN 3764350237, ISBN-13 9783764350239, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 1, maintains, for instance, that much comic writing consists in ridicule that lacks deeper intellectual and cul tural roots. "Wit and mockery," he notes, "by themselves have little lasting value. Even in the best of such fiction, Gravity's Rainbow, one is made aware of attenuated skits stiched onto previous segments, rather than baked in by a defined point of view. " (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.

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Book Title: Comic Sense : Reading Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Philip Roth

Number of Pages: Xiii, 197 Pages

Publication Name: Comic Sense : Reading Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Philip Roth

Language: English

Publisher: Springer Basel A&G

Subject: Comparative Literature, American / General, Humor

Publication Year: 1994

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 14.5 Oz

Subject Area: Literary Criticism

Author: Thomas Pughe

Item Length: 9.4 in

Item Width: 6.7 in

Series: International Cooper Series in English Language and Literature Ser.

Format: Trade Paperback

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