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Calvinist Humor in American Literature /
Though the phrase "Calvinist humor" may seem to be an oxymoron, Michael Dunne, in highly original and unfailingly interesting readings of major American fiction writers, uncovers and traces two recurrent strands of Calvinist humor descending from Puritan times far into the twentieth centur...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2007.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Calvinist humor -- Calvinist humor and the American puritans: "the just hand of God" -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: "that would be a jest indeed" -- Herman Melville: "in no world but a fallen one" -- Mark Twain: "the trouble about special providences" -- William Faulkner: "waiting for the part to begin which he would not like" -- Ernest Hemingway: "isn't it pretty to think so?" -- Nathanael West: "gloriously funny" -- Flannery O'Connor: "funny because it is terrible" -- Calvinist humor revisited. | |
| 520 | |a Though the phrase "Calvinist humor" may seem to be an oxymoron, Michael Dunne, in highly original and unfailingly interesting readings of major American fiction writers, uncovers and traces two recurrent strands of Calvinist humor descending from Puritan times far into the twentieth century. Calvinist doctrine views mankind as fallen, apt to engage in any number of imperfect behaviors. Calvinist humor, Dunne explains, consists in the perception of this imperfection. When we perceive that only others are imperfect, we participate in the form of Calvinist humor preferred by William Bra. | ||
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