Morton Gurewitch
$39.95s cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2513-0
256 pages
1994
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
Book Information | About the book | Reviews | |||||||||||||
|
The
Ironic Temper and the Comic Imagination Morton Gurewitch |
The Ironic Temper and the Comic Imagination examines and illuminates the role which the ironic temper plays in the creation of complex literary comedy. The book focuses on ironic comedy, though not of the kind that is characterized by the surprises and shocks, the incongruities and reversals, of circumstantial irony. Circumstantial—or situational—irony cannot stand alone; it serves, for example, the aggressive functions of satire, or the irrational impulses of farce, or the benevolent, whimsical, or pain-defeating energies of humor. | "A work of vast and precise erudition. This thoughtful, thought-provoking and elegantly written book crowns an already distinguished scholarly career and establishes Morton Gurewitch as a leading authority on a challenging subject." —Lloyd Bishop, Virginia Tech | |||||||||||||
| Humor
in Life and Letters Series $39.95s cloth / ISBN 0-8143-2513-0 256 pages 1994 |
||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|