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The Irresponsible Self
On Laughter And The Novel
by James Wood
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Critic James Wood considers the role of humor in fiction, making a distinction between secular comedy (which focuses on the human condition) and what he calls "religious comedy" (which aims to teach a lesson by way of satire or farce). Wood calls on his wide-ranging erudition, examining laughter in writers from Cervantes to Naipaul to Bellow.
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9780312424602,
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Picador USA,
2005
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9780374177379,
Hardcover,
Farrar Straus & Giroux,
2004
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Publisher Notes
One of the nation's most controversial literary critics serves up twenty-three original, hard-hitting essays on a wide range of subjects, including Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dostoevsky, Bellow, Naipaul, the theater, and religious comedy.
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"A miscellany...--and an unusually rich and satisfying one."
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