The Comedy of Entropy : Humour/Narrative/Reading /

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Entropic comedy is the phrase coined by Patrick O'Neill in this study to identify a particular mode of twentieth-century narrative that is not generally recognized. He describes it as the narrative expression of forms of decentred humour, or what might more loosely be called 'black humour....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Neill, Patrick (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Colección:Heritage
Temas:
Comedy > In literature.
Comic, The, in literature.
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Narration (Rhetoric).
LITERARY CRITICISM / Humor.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I. Contexts: Entropy and Humour
  • 1. Entropy: The Loss of Certainty
  • 2. Humour: Reconstructing a Spectrum
  • 3. Boundaries Blurred: The Importance of Being Earnest
  • II. Pretexts: Humour and Narrative
  • 4. Theoretical Worlds: Humour, Play, and Narrative
  • 5. Homologous Worlds: The Literary and the Ludie
  • III. Texts: Narrative and Reading
  • 6. The Comedy of Entropy: A Narrative Taxonomy
  • 7. Entropic Satire: The Observation of Anomie
  • 8. Entropic Irony: Information and Interpretation
  • 9. Entropic Parody: The Structuration of Uncertainty
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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