Title: The Irresponsible Self
First published: June 16, 2004
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].
Subjects: Fiction, Comedy, History and criticism, Fiction, history and criticism