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Comic Sense: Reading Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Philip Roth

Name: Comic Sense: Reading Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Philip Roth
Author: Thomas Pughe
ISBN: 9780817650230

by Thomas Pughe

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Overview

This book aims to increase our understanding of the comic in the work of three major contemporary North American writers.

Synopsis

This book aims to increase our understanding of the comic in the work of three major contemporary North American writers.

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Concentrates on the major works of three contemporary North American writers to explore from a postmodern perspective how the comic element fits into the larger bodies of their writings, and into both the writers' and their readers' sense of the comic. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)