The Irish comic tradition
By: by Vivian Mercier.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Wit and humour.; Gaelic fiction.; Comedy.; Satire -- History and criticism.; Irish literature.
Table of contents: title: The archaism of Gaelic comic literature -- Fantasy in Irish humour and ribaldry -- Macabre and grotesque humor in the Irish tradition -- Irish wit and word play -- Satire in early Irish -- Satire in modern Irish -- Swift and Irish satire in the English language -- Joyce and the Irish tradition of parody -- The archaism of Anglo-Irish comic literature.