Comedy after postmodernism
Comedy after postmodernism: rereading comedy from Edward Lear to Charles Willeford Kirby Olson
Publisher: Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press, c2001.
ISBN: 0896724409
DDC: 827.009
LCC: PR931
Edition: (alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-178) and index.
Introduction: comedy after postmodernism -- The comic poets against
the sublime -- Edward Lear: Deleuzian landscape painter -- Gregory
Croso: doubting thomist -- Comic fiction writers and the problem of
the just -- Philippe Soupault and the comedy of the Parisian derive
-- Bertie and Jeeves at the end of history: P. G. Wodehouse as
political scientist -- The war on the home front: comedy and
political identity in the work of Stewart Home -- Postmodernism and
the crisis of judgment in Charles Willeford's The burnt orange
heresy.
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