Comic Faith
Subtitle: The Great Comic Tradition from Austen to Joyce
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx)
Published: April 1981
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780226673202
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Comedy; Humor; Joyce, James; Religion; 19th Century English Novel And Short Story; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 19th century; Christian fiction, English; Comic, The, in literature; English fiction; History and criticism; English
First sentence: At the end of Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth, the artist Gulley Jimson is dying, but he tells the nun attending him he feels like laughing.