Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface / English, James F.
  • Introduction: Humor; Politics, Community
  • One. Covert Operations: The Unworking of the "Working Community" in The Secret Agent
  • Two. Imagining a Community of Men: Black(shirt) Humor in The Apes of God
  • Three. Broken English: Disarticulated Community in Between the Acts
  • Four. Barbarism as Culturism: Lucky Jim and the Politics of the Campus Novel
  • Five. Actually Existing Postmodernism: The Comedy of Disorganization in The Golden Notebook
  • Six. Community Relations: Policing Jokes in The Satanic Verses
  • Bibliography of Works Cited
  • Index