The Irresponsible Self
Subtitle: On Laughter and the Novel
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: June 16, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780374177379
Description: Defends what Wood calls "secular comedy"-human, tragicomic, forgiving, bound up with the very origins of the novel -against the narrower "religious comedy" of satire and farce, which is corrective, punitive, and theatrical. [publisher web site].