The irresponsible self
Subtitle: on laughter and the novel
By: James Wood
Edition: 1st Picador ed.
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780312424602
Subjects: Comédie; Roman; Comedy; History and criticism; Histoire et critique; Fiction
Table of contents: title: Introduction : comedy and the irresponsible self; title: Don Quixote's old and new testaments; title: Shakespeare and the pathos of rambling; title: How Shakespeare's "irresponsibility" saved Coleridge; title: Dostoevsky's God; title: Isaac Babel and the dangers of exaggeration; title: Saltykov-Shchedrin's subversion of hypocrisy; title: Anna Karenina and characterization; title: Italo Svevo's unreliable comedy; title: Giovanni Verga's comic sympathy; title: Joseph Roth's empire of signs; title: Bohumil Hrabal's comic world; title: J.F. Powers and the priests; title: Hysterical realism; title: Jonathan Franzen and the "social novel"; title: Tom Wolfe's shallowness and the problem of information; title: Salman Rushdie's Nobu novel; title: Monica Ali's novelties; title: Coatzee's Disgrace : a few skeptical thoughts; title: Saul Bellow's comic style; title: The real Mr. Biswas; title: V.S. Pritchett and English comedy; title: Henry Green's England; title: A long day at the chocolate bar factory : David Bezmozgis's compassionate irony.