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Dickensian laughter : essays on Dickens and humour /
"How does Dickens make his readers laugh? What is the distinctive character of Dickensian humour? These are the questions explored in this book on a topic that has been strangely neglected in critical studies over the last half century. Dickens's friend and biographer John Forster declared...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Opening a fresh vein of humour
- Staging comic anecdotes
- Comic timing
- Laughter and incongruity
- Falling apart laughing
- Laughter and laughers in Dickens
- What made Dickens laugh?
- Afterword : Dickensian laughter in a popular Dark Age.