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The Ironic Temper and the Comic Imagination (Humor in Life and Letters Series)

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 | #1803375 in Books |  1994-10-01 |  1994-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.50 x6.50 x1.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Literary Criticism Worth Reading!|By James Hercules Sutton|This book, which follows Dr. Gurewitch's book on Farce, surveys Irony from its benevolent form (approaching Humor) through Pyrronic and cosmic forms to its most unredemptive nihilistic expression. He illustrates with concrete literary references drawn from western literature, both American and Continental, ancient and m|About the Author|Morton Gurewitch has taught English at Brown University and at the State University of New York at Cortland. The author of Comedy: The Irrational Vision, he received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.

The Ironic Temper and the Comic Imagination examines and illuminates the role which the ironic temper plays in the creation of complex literary comedy. The book focuses on ironic comedy, though not of the kind that is characterized by the surprises and shocks, the incongruities and reversals, of circumstantial irony. Circumstantial-or situational-irony cannot stand alone; it serves, for example, the aggressive functions of satire, or the irrational impulses of farce, or ...

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