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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: irresponsible self
    sub title: on laughter and the novel
  name:
    name part: Wood, James
    name part: 1965-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 312 pages ; 23 cm.
  table of contents: Introduction : comedy and the irresponsible self -- Don Quixote's Old and New Testaments -- Shakespeare and the pathos of rambling -- How Shakespeare's "irresponsibility" saved Coleridge -- Dostoevsky's God -- Isaac Babel and the dangers of exaggeration -- Saltykov-Shchedrin's subversion of hypocrisy -- Anna Karenina and characterisation -- Italo Svevo's unreliable comedy -- Giovanni Verga's comic sympathy -- Joseph Roth's empire of signs -- Bohumil Harabal's comic world -- J.F. Powers and the priests -- Hysterical realism -- Jonathan Franzen and the "social novel" -- Tom Wolfe's shallowness, and the problem of information -- Salman Rushdie's nobu novel -- Monica Ali's novelties -- Coetzec's disgrace : a few skeptical thoughts -- Saul Bellow's comic style -- The real Mr. Biswas -- V.S. Pritchett and English comedy -- Henry Green's England.
  note: James Wood.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Comedy
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: English fiction
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: 824.914
  identifier: 0224064509
  record info:
    record content source: EQO
    record creation date: 040226
    record change date: 20151031174616.0
    record identifier: in00002026684