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  1. The irresponsible self
    on laughter and the novel
    Author: Wood, James
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0374177376
    RVK Categories: EC 3940 ; EC 6710
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Subjects: Het komische; Romans; Array; Array; aComedy; Roman; Komik
    Scope: viii, 312 p., 22 cm
    Notes:

    Introduction: comedy and the irresponsible self -- Shakespeare and the pathos of rambling -- How Shakespeare's 'irresponsibility' saved Coleridge -- Dostoevsky's God -- Isaac Babel and the dangers of exaggeration -- Saltykov-Shchedrin's subversion of hypocrisy -- Anna Karenina and characterization -- Italo Svevo's unreliable comedy -- Giovanni Verga's comic sympathy -- Joseph Roth's empire of signs -- Bohumil Hrabal's comic world -- J.F. Powers and the priests -- Hysterical realism -- Jonathan Franzen and the 'social novel' -- Tom Wolfe's shallowness and the trouble with information -- Salman Rushdie's nobu novel -- Monica Ali's novelties -- Coetzee's disgrace, a few skeptical thoughts -- Saul Bellow's comic style -- The real Mr. Biswas -- V.S. Pritchett and English comedy -- Henry Green's England.

  2. <<The>> irresponsible self
    on laughter and the novel
    Author: Wood, James
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

    Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz / Pfälzische Landesbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0374177376
    Other identifier:
    9780374177379
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Subjects: Lachen; Roman
    Scope: VIII, 312 S.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  3. The irresponsible self
    on laughter and the novel
    Author: Wood, James
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

    Landesbibliothekszentrum Rheinland-Pfalz / Pfälzische Landesbibliothek
    19.2793
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0374177376
    Other identifier:
    9780374177379
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Subjects: Roman; Lachen
    Other subjects: Fiction / 19th century / History and criticism / Fiction / 20th century / History and criticism / Comedy
    Scope: VIII, 312 S.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  4. The irresponsible self
    on laughter and the novel
    Author: Wood, James
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY

    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
    13.345.25
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0374177376
    RVK Categories: EC 4630 ; EC 5410
    Subjects: Roman; Komik
    Scope: VIII, 312 S.
  5. The irresponsible self
    on laughter and the novel
    Author: Wood, James
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY

    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
    13.345.25
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
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    Content information
    Source: Specialised Catalogue of Comparative Literature
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0374177376
    RVK Categories: EC 4630 ; EC 5410
    Subjects: Roman; Komik
    Scope: VIII, 312 S.