The Contemporary American Comic Epic PDF
By:Elaine B. Safer
Published on 1989 by Detroit : Wayne State University Press
Elaine Safer's critically acclaimed work analyzes how 20th century epic writers make ironic use of traditional themes and patterns to develop a new genre, the American comic epic novel. Illustrating practical criticism at its best, the book closely scrutinizes six modern comic novels from John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis , and Ken Kesey. Safer supports her study with a firm grasp of the English epic of John Milton, the American epics of Cotton Mather and Walt Whitman, and the comic tradition of Rabelais, Cervantes, and Fielding. Her examination allows the modern American absurdist novel to be seen within a tradition and yet as distinctively modern. In addition, the book provides a clear and wide-ranging theoretical framework for the absurd and for black humor, terms too loosely defined in the past.
This Book was ranked at 21 by Google Books for keyword Genre Fiction Absurdist novel.
Book ID of The Contemporary American Comic Epic's Books is gZBaAAAAYAAJ, Book which was written byElaine B. Saferhave ETAG "Z/XTK124M+s"
Book which was published by Detroit : Wayne State University Press since 1989 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is and ISBN 10 Code is
Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is false
Book which have "216 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryAmerican fiction
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false
Book Preview
Download The Contemporary American Comic Epic PDF Free
Download The Contemporary American Comic Epic Books Free
Download The Contemporary American Comic Epic Free
Download The Contemporary American Comic Epic PDF
Download The Contemporary American Comic Epic Books
