Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction
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Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction
Who's Laughing Now?
Marsh, Dr Huw
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
02/2022
248
Mole
Inglês
9781350249387
15 a 20 dias
367
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: A comic turn in contemporary English fiction?
The comic turn
Contemporary English fiction
Who's laughing now?
1. 'Sinking giggling into the sea'?: Jonathan Coe and the politics of comedy
Jokes and/as innovative action
From satire to comedy
Metacomedy
2. 'A grave disquisition': Style, class and comedy in the novels of Martin Amis
The ethics of style
High and low: Hierarchies of comic style
Comedy, class and style from The Information to Lionel Asbo
3. 'Talking about things we didn't want to talk about': Zadie Smith and laughter
What's so hysterical about hysterical realism?
Mixed emotions: Laughter and tears
'Talking about things we didn't want to talk about': Comedy and community
4. 'Like a monkey with a miniature cymbal': Magnus Mills and the comedy of repetition
Comedy, surprise and repetition
Magnus Mills
Deadpan; dead bodies: The Restraint of Beasts
Working to rule, ruling the workplace: The Scheme for Full Employment and The Maintenance of Headway
Funny as hell: Beckett, O'Brien, Mills
5. 'Simple high jinks'?: Nicola Barker and the comedy of paradox
Pooterism, pedantry and the logic of the absurd: Incongruity as comic practice
'Is the fucking carnival in town or what?': Satire, the grotesque and the carnivalesque
Laughter and redemption: From comedy to humour
Rabbit-duck/Duck-rabbit
6. 'No drawing of lines': Howard Jacobson and the boundaries of the comic
Lancing the boil: Zoo Time, Coming from Behind and the necessity of offence
'Jew know why'?: The Finkler Question, Jewish Jokes and the politics of joke-telling communities
'Not only funny': Kalooki Nights and Holocaust comedy
Comedy Trumped? Pussy and the challenge for contemporary satire
Conclusion: The comic turn in contemporary English fiction
Selling the past as the future: Nationhood, work and performance in Julian Barnes's England, England
Bibliography
Introduction: A comic turn in contemporary English fiction?
The comic turn
Contemporary English fiction
Who's laughing now?
1. 'Sinking giggling into the sea'?: Jonathan Coe and the politics of comedy
Jokes and/as innovative action
From satire to comedy
Metacomedy
2. 'A grave disquisition': Style, class and comedy in the novels of Martin Amis
The ethics of style
High and low: Hierarchies of comic style
Comedy, class and style from The Information to Lionel Asbo
3. 'Talking about things we didn't want to talk about': Zadie Smith and laughter
What's so hysterical about hysterical realism?
Mixed emotions: Laughter and tears
'Talking about things we didn't want to talk about': Comedy and community
4. 'Like a monkey with a miniature cymbal': Magnus Mills and the comedy of repetition
Comedy, surprise and repetition
Magnus Mills
Deadpan; dead bodies: The Restraint of Beasts
Working to rule, ruling the workplace: The Scheme for Full Employment and The Maintenance of Headway
Funny as hell: Beckett, O'Brien, Mills
5. 'Simple high jinks'?: Nicola Barker and the comedy of paradox
Pooterism, pedantry and the logic of the absurd: Incongruity as comic practice
'Is the fucking carnival in town or what?': Satire, the grotesque and the carnivalesque
Laughter and redemption: From comedy to humour
Rabbit-duck/Duck-rabbit
6. 'No drawing of lines': Howard Jacobson and the boundaries of the comic
Lancing the boil: Zoo Time, Coming from Behind and the necessity of offence
'Jew know why'?: The Finkler Question, Jewish Jokes and the politics of joke-telling communities
'Not only funny': Kalooki Nights and Holocaust comedy
Comedy Trumped? Pussy and the challenge for contemporary satire
Conclusion: The comic turn in contemporary English fiction
Selling the past as the future: Nationhood, work and performance in Julian Barnes's England, England
Bibliography
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: A comic turn in contemporary English fiction?
The comic turn
Contemporary English fiction
Who's laughing now?
1. 'Sinking giggling into the sea'?: Jonathan Coe and the politics of comedy
Jokes and/as innovative action
From satire to comedy
Metacomedy
2. 'A grave disquisition': Style, class and comedy in the novels of Martin Amis
The ethics of style
High and low: Hierarchies of comic style
Comedy, class and style from The Information to Lionel Asbo
3. 'Talking about things we didn't want to talk about': Zadie Smith and laughter
What's so hysterical about hysterical realism?
Mixed emotions: Laughter and tears
'Talking about things we didn't want to talk about': Comedy and community
4. 'Like a monkey with a miniature cymbal': Magnus Mills and the comedy of repetition
Comedy, surprise and repetition
Magnus Mills
Deadpan; dead bodies: The Restraint of Beasts
Working to rule, ruling the workplace: The Scheme for Full Employment and The Maintenance of Headway
Funny as hell: Beckett, O'Brien, Mills
5. 'Simple high jinks'?: Nicola Barker and the comedy of paradox
Pooterism, pedantry and the logic of the absurd: Incongruity as comic practice
'Is the fucking carnival in town or what?': Satire, the grotesque and the carnivalesque
Laughter and redemption: From comedy to humour
Rabbit-duck/Duck-rabbit
6. 'No drawing of lines': Howard Jacobson and the boundaries of the comic
Lancing the boil: Zoo Time, Coming from Behind and the necessity of offence
'Jew know why'?: The Finkler Question, Jewish Jokes and the politics of joke-telling communities
'Not only funny': Kalooki Nights and Holocaust comedy
Comedy Trumped? Pussy and the challenge for contemporary satire
Conclusion: The comic turn in contemporary English fiction
Selling the past as the future: Nationhood, work and performance in Julian Barnes's England, England
Bibliography
Introduction: A comic turn in contemporary English fiction?
The comic turn
Contemporary English fiction
Who's laughing now?
1. 'Sinking giggling into the sea'?: Jonathan Coe and the politics of comedy
Jokes and/as innovative action
From satire to comedy
Metacomedy
2. 'A grave disquisition': Style, class and comedy in the novels of Martin Amis
The ethics of style
High and low: Hierarchies of comic style
Comedy, class and style from The Information to Lionel Asbo
3. 'Talking about things we didn't want to talk about': Zadie Smith and laughter
What's so hysterical about hysterical realism?
Mixed emotions: Laughter and tears
'Talking about things we didn't want to talk about': Comedy and community
4. 'Like a monkey with a miniature cymbal': Magnus Mills and the comedy of repetition
Comedy, surprise and repetition
Magnus Mills
Deadpan; dead bodies: The Restraint of Beasts
Working to rule, ruling the workplace: The Scheme for Full Employment and The Maintenance of Headway
Funny as hell: Beckett, O'Brien, Mills
5. 'Simple high jinks'?: Nicola Barker and the comedy of paradox
Pooterism, pedantry and the logic of the absurd: Incongruity as comic practice
'Is the fucking carnival in town or what?': Satire, the grotesque and the carnivalesque
Laughter and redemption: From comedy to humour
Rabbit-duck/Duck-rabbit
6. 'No drawing of lines': Howard Jacobson and the boundaries of the comic
Lancing the boil: Zoo Time, Coming from Behind and the necessity of offence
'Jew know why'?: The Finkler Question, Jewish Jokes and the politics of joke-telling communities
'Not only funny': Kalooki Nights and Holocaust comedy
Comedy Trumped? Pussy and the challenge for contemporary satire
Conclusion: The comic turn in contemporary English fiction
Selling the past as the future: Nationhood, work and performance in Julian Barnes's England, England
Bibliography
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