Title: Bloom's literary themes.
Authors: Bloom, Harold; Hobby, Blake.
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Black humor.; Humor in literature.
Abstract: Traces humor in literature and the literary devices used to create it while explaining the importance of satirical wit.
Contents: "Aristophanes' comic apocalypse" / by Louise Cowan, in The Terrain of comedy (1984) -- "The Theatre of the Absurd" / by Martin Esslin, in Theatre in the Twentieth Century (1956) -- "Catch-22 and angry humor: a study of the normative values of satire" / by James Nagel, in Studies in American Humor (1974) -- "Dark humor in Cat's Cradle" / by Blake Hobby -- "A Clockwork Orange and the mataphysics of slapstick" / by Matthew J. Bolton -- "The comedy of entropy: the contexts of black humour" / by Patrick O'Neill, in Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (1983) -- "Elements of dark humor in Dante's Divine Comedy" / by Lauren P. De La Vars -- "When farce turns into something else: Harold Pinter's The Dumb Wait" / by Scott Walters -- "Observations on black humor in Gogol and Nabokov" / by Woodin W. Rowe, in The Slavic and East European Journal (1974) -- "Clichés, superficial story-telling, and the dark humor of Flannery O'Connor's 'A good man is hard to find'" / by Robert C. Evans -- "The rejection of Falstaff" / by A.C. Bradley, in Oxford Lectures on Poetry (1909) -- "'Almost ridiculous': dark humor in Eliot's 'The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock'" / by Robert C. Evans -- "Wood's Halfpence" / by Leslie Stephen, in Swift (1882) -- "The Mysterious stranger and '3,000 years among the microbes': chemerical realities and nightmarish transformations" / by Patricia M. Mandia, in Comedic pathos: black humor in Twain's fiction (1991) -- "The saddest joke: Sherman Alexie's blues" / by James A. Crank -- "The dark humor of White Noise" / by Joseph Dewey -- "Dark humor in Edward Albee's Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?" / by Kate Falvey -- "'Too terribly good to be printed': Charlotte Gilman's 'The Yellow wallpaper'" / by Conrad Shumaker, in American Literature (1985).