Comic Faith
Subtitle: The Great Tradition from Austen to Joyce
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: October 1, 1982
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780226673219
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Christianity - Literature & the Arts; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Humor; Religion / Christian Literature; Religion; 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.