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02259pam a22003854a 4500 001 F9835F6C2B0611DE8E590108A8D7520A 005 20150520012456 008 031022s2004 nyu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2003022955 020 $a 9780374177379 (hardcover : alk. paper) 020 $a 0374177376 (hardcover : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)53287677 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d IWA $d SILO 050 00 $a PN3352.C6 $b W66 2004 082 00 $a 809.3/917 $2 22 100 1 $a Wood, James, $d 1965- 245 1 $a The irresponsible self : $b on laughter and the novel / $c James Wood. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $c 2004. 300 $a viii, 312 p. ; $c 22 cm. 505 0 $a Introduction : comedy and the irresponsible self -- Don Quixote's Old and New Testaments -- 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 characterisation -- Italo Svevo's unreliable comedy -- Giovanni Verga's comic sympathy -- Joseph Roth's empire of signs -- Bohumil Harabal's comic world -- J.F. Powers and the priests -- Hysterical realism -- Jonathan Franzen and the "social novel" -- Tom Wolfe's shallowness, and the problem of information -- Salman Rushdie's nobu novel -- Monica Ali's novelties -- Coetzec'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. 650 0 $a Fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Comedy. 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol042/2003022955.html 856 41 $3 Table of contents $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0410/2003022955.html 939 $a 5146688 941 $a 5 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190202014537.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20150922031235.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F9835F6C2B0611DE8E590108A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IWA 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l PHAX277 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20090701080000.0Initiate Another SILO Locator Search