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Journal articles on the topic "Humorous fiction"

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Sonnichsen, C. L. "Laughter and History: Humorous Fiction of the American West." Western Historical Quarterly 16, no. 1 (1985): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/968154.

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Procter, Ben, and C. L. Sonnichsen. "The Laughing West: Humorous Western Fiction Past and Present. An Anthology." Western Historical Quarterly 20, no. 4 (1989): 461. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/969505.

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Galinanes, C. L. "Funny Fiction; or, Jokes and Their Relation to the Humorous Novel." Poetics Today 26, no. 1 (2005): 79–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/03335372-26-1-79.

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Сапожникова, Лариса Михайловна. "REAL AND FICTIONAL PROPER NAMES IN CONTEMPORARY GERMAN LITERARY DISCOURSE." Вестник Тверского государственного университета. Серия: Филология, no. 2(73) (June 14, 2022): 146–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.26456/vtfilol/2022.2.146.

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Целью данной статьи является изучение системы корреляции между вымышленными и реальными именами в литературном нарративе. В фокусе внимания находится новейший юмористический детективный роман «Мисс Меркель. Смерть в Уккермарк» современного немецкого автора Давида Сафье и его ономастическое пространство. Описываются особенности смыслообразования в художественном тексте, обусловленные внетекстовой реальностью. The aim of this article is to examine the system of correlation between fictional and real names in the literary narrative. The focus is on the newest humorous detective novel Miss Merkel.
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Shyshkina, Iryna. "THE STYLISTIC PECULIARITIES IN THE CREATION OF HUMOR IN A. BRADLEY'S NOVEL "SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE"." English and American Studies, no. 20 (June 23, 2023): 163–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/382320.

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The article is focused upon the analysis of stylistic means, devices by which Alan Bradley achieves the comic effect in the novel “Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie”. In recent decades, the problem of creation of comic and linguistic means of its expression in works of fiction has been the object of attention of many researchers. However, until now, the linguistic and stylistic devices used by the authors of humorous texts to create a comic effect and express an individual worldview position have not been sufficiently studied, since the researchers focused mainly on the literary aspect, the p
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Fateeva, Yu G. "VERNACULAR IDIOMS IN THE CONTEXT OF A HUMOROUS SAYINGS (in fiction about medicine)." Filologické vědomosti 2, no. 1 (2017): 56–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.24045/fv.2017.1.8.

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Montoro, Rocío, and Sena Hilal Zaganor. "Chick Lit." English Text Construction 16, no. 2 (2023): 214–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/etc.22028.mon.

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Abstract In this paper, we look at characterisation in the popular fiction genre Chick Lit by analysing laughter-talk in conversational humour. This is the first systematic analysis of how a variety of humour phenomena are linguistically realised in the genre despite humour being as aspect recurrently referred to as intrinsic to the genre. We use a combination of methods, both corpus-based and qualitative in nature, to identify instances in which laughter occurs, which we (broadly) associate with the presence of humour. Thus, with the use of self-compiled corpora, we assess the nature of humor
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Barr, Rebecca Anne. "Richardsonian Fiction, Women’s Raillery, and Heteropessimist Humour." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 33, no. 4 (2021): 531–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ecf.33.4.531.

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The fiction of Samuel Richardson is not fundamentally humourless. This article analyzes the rich vein of humour found in Pamela in her Exalted Condition (1745) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753–54) to show that Richardson was acutely aware of the interpersonal power of laughter and that he harnessed it for aesthetic and moral ends. Novelistic scenes of spontaneous conversation dramatize the various and often embodied effects of humorous performances. Using theories of gender and humour, I argue that Richardson critiques and modifies Restoration wit by using women’s raillery as the
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Beck, Günter. ""EINE ENTSCHEIDUNG FÜR DAS LEBEN": THE COMIC MODE IN ABBAS KHIDER’S NOVELS." RESEARCH TRENDS IN MODERN LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE 2 (November 7, 2019): 4–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.29038/2617-6696.2019.2.4.22.

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The article addresses the structuring function and pivotal role of the comic in the writings of German-Iraqi author Abbas Khider, focusing primarily on his 2008 debut novel Der falsche Inder (The Village Indian) which as autopoetic fiction depicts in its cyclic narrative structure the horrible experiences of a young Iraqi man under a brutal dictatorial regime and tells of his equally disturbing experiences on his further escape route to his final destination in Germany. Seemingly, in an almost cynical contrast to this grim topicality, stands the novel’s general and cohesive humorous tone, its
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Simsone, Bārbala. "Science Fiction In Latvian Literature." Interlitteraria 22, no. 2 (2018): 397. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/il.2017.22.2.16.

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The present paper is devoted to the overview of the beginnings and development of the genre of science fiction in Latvian literature. Similarly to other popular fiction genres, science fiction in Latvian literature has not been very popular due to social and historical reasons; however, during the course of the 20th century several authors have at least partially approached the genre and created either fully fledged science fiction works or literary works with science fiction elements in them. The paper looks at the first attempts to create science fiction-related works during the beginning of
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Humorous fiction"

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Christian, George Scott. "The friendly companion : toward a comic poetics in the nineteenth-century English novel /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3004239.

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Inamoto, Masako. "Insignificance Given Meaning: The Literature of Kita Morio." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1282123908.

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Khoza, Solomzi Sonwabo. "The translation of humour in Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good omens." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/21812.

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A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Translation Johannesburg, 2016<br>The aim of this paper is to investigate how the different types of humour in Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens have been translated into French and German as De Bons Présages and Ein Gutes Omen, respectively. This study applies frame semantics to analyse how the translators recreated the humour of the ST in the instances that they were able to do so. This theory examines
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Murphy, Martin J. ""Hilarious downfall : comic affect and the shared grammar of literary and screen comedy narratives"." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:49724.

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This thesis examines the operating principles of comedy narratives across literary and screen forms and describes how we can feel a positive affective response, or comic affect, towards characters we identify with in darker comedy narratives that end in failure. This is not as negatively affective as it may sound. Our bodies fall apart, people are annoying and the world doesn’t care if we fail, but our suffering is all fuel for comedy. Comedy narratives, as a general audience expectation, often end in success but failure is a fundamental narrative driver. The failure of the comic character, fo
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Cooper, Amanda. "A case study of feminist comedy in Muriel Spark's Robinson." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:50872.

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Muriel Spark’s comedy is unnerving, thought-provoking and under-researched. Few studies have inquired into the literary and/or feminist impulses behind the ubiquitous humour of this author’s twenty-two novels. Advancing a fresh interpretation of one of Spark’s least discussed novels, this thesis aims to establish a deep and detailed understanding of how comedy functions in her work. Generally considered a difficult, inferior follow-up to her much lauded debut as a novelist, Robinson has received little critical attention. But reading this novel in the light of recent literary and cultural crit
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Roberts, James. "The ludic mode of Pangamonium: an exegesis on the novel: ' Pangamonium '." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/37899.

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This thesis has two components : a novel and an exegesis. Pangamonium is a comic novel that parodies and satirises adventure romances and travel accounts as well as global imperialisms. Francis, an American journalist who has lived in Australia, travels to a tiny Asian country, Panga, a kingdom that has been taken over by a military dictatorship. There he meets Easter, an African on a quest to find the grave and buried treasure of his pirate ancestor. The odd couple endure a comic odyssey together and ultimately liberate a group of enslaved children from a vibrator factory. The Ludic Mode of P
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Roberts, James. "The ludic mode of Pangamonium: an exegesis on the novel: ' Pangamonium '." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/37899.

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This thesis has two components : a novel and an exegesis. Pangamonium is a comic novel that parodies and satirises adventure romances and travel accounts as well as global imperialisms. Francis, an American journalist who has lived in Australia, travels to a tiny Asian country, Panga, a kingdom that has been taken over by a military dictatorship. There he meets Easter, an African on a quest to find the grave and buried treasure of his pirate ancestor. The odd couple endure a comic odyssey together and ultimately liberate a group of enslaved children from a vibrator factory. The Ludic Mode of P
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Verster, Helene. "Translating humour in children's literature: Dahl as a case study." Diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25414.

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Text in English<br>This study focuses on the strategies and devices used to create humour in children’s literature. No language is a replica of another language and it is generally accepted that a translator has to be creative in order to make the Source Text (ST) meaning available to the Target Text (TT) reader. The research conducted in this study aims to fill a gap regarding the application of humour in the rather under-researched field of children’s literature. A descriptive framework was used to conduct this qualitative study in order to be able to describe the linguistic strategies and d
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Books on the topic "Humorous fiction"

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Scholastic Inc. Exploring humorous fiction. Scholastic, 1992.

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Leacock, Stephen. Frenzied fiction. J. Lane, 1997.

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Robert, Nichols. From the steam room: A comic fiction. Tilbury House, 1993.

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1901-, Sonnichsen C. L., ed. The Laughing West: Humorous Western fiction past and present : an anthology. Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1988.

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Attea, Tom. NewsLaugh - Collected Humorous Fiction. To Reason Publishing, 2006.

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Teaching genre: Humorous fiction. Scholastic Professional Books, 2001.

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Wodehouse, P. G. WHITE FEATHER: Humorous Fiction. Independently Published, 2021.

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Sonnichsen, C. L. Laughing West: Humorous Western Fiction. Swallow Press, 1988.

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Sonnichsen, C. L. Laughing West: Humorous Western Fiction. Swallow Press, 1988.

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Wodehouse, P. G. Prefect's Uncle Illustrated: Fiction, Humorous. Independently Published, 2021.

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Book chapters on the topic "Humorous fiction"

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Timofeeva-Timofeev, Larissa. "Fictional interaction in children’s humorous narratives." In Pragmatics & Beyond New Series. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.335.10tim.

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This paper analyses the construction of fictional interaction in humorous narratives written by children of 8, 10 and 12 years of age, as compiled in the CHILDHUM corpus. These informants were asked to write a humorous story about an imaginary school exchange program with Mars. The analysis will explore the ways in which children shape their fictional conversational interactions with Martians, and how the data that arise can be correlated with the psychosocial and metalinguistic maturation of the children. This preliminary qualitative study reveals that children aged 8 demonstrate a certain degree of aggression towards the image of Martians, whereas this tendency reduces in the narratives of 10-year-olds. In regard to how they deal with the orality vs. writing opposition, the 8-year-olds essentially write like they speak, and once again it is by the age of 10 that a turning point can be perceived towards a higher awareness of the typographical conventions of the written representation of orality.
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Hubbard, Susan. "14 Writing Humorous Fiction." In The Handbook of Creative Writing. Edinburgh University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780748689774-017.

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Tran-Gervat, Yen-Mai. "Quixotism as a Humorous Reflection on Fiction’s Effects." In Can Fiction Change the World? Modern Humanities Research Association, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.667666.20.

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West, Emma. "For Love or Money: Popular 1920s Artist Stories in The Royal and The Strand." In The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture, 1880-1950. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461085.003.0007.

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From Hutchinson’s Story Magazine and Cassell’s Magazine to The New Magazine and The Grand Magazine, standard illustrated popular magazines are a neglected but rich source for anyone interested in short fiction. In this essay, I examine how these magazines’ brand identity and editorial practices affected their fictional contents. In order to do so, I explore just one subgenre of short fiction published in these magazines during the early 1920s: the artist story. Through an examination of five humorous artist stories by Morley Roberts, Joyce Cary, Robert Magill, H. C. McNeile and Christine Castle, published in The Strand and The Royal, I argue that these stories were shaped both by the magazine’s intended readership and the publication’s wider stance on art, as indicated by their editorials and accompanying non-fiction pieces.
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Wu, Yan. "Artificial Intelligence in Chinese Science Fiction." In Imagining AI. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192865366.003.0023.

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Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the core themes of current Chinese science fiction (SF). Its emergence can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770–221 bce). Chinese AI-related SF of the twentieth century can be divided into three stages: Stage I—AI-peripheral fiction, Stage II—quasi-AI fiction, and Stage III—AI fiction. In the Mao era (1949–1976), Stage I stories were the most common, with Stage II just beginning to emerge. Stage II fiction then dominated the period between the end of the Cultural Revolution and the early Deng Xiaoping era (1977–1982), when Stage III novels started to appear in largish numbers. There is no strong link between SF and the development of AI technology in China in the twentieth century. Throughout this period, AI novels aimed at children serve a didactic purpose, and they adopt a humorous attitude towards the future development of mechanical intelligence.
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Bailey, James. "‘Drama[s] of exact observation’: Spark and the Nouveau Roman." In Muriel Spark's Early Fiction. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474475969.003.0004.

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Concentrating on the development of her fiction during the decade spanning 1960 to 1970, this chapter traces the evolving relationship between Spark’s novels and the style and ethos of the nouveau roman. It focuses in particular on Spark’s inventive appropriation of what she termed ‘the drama of exact observation,’ as derived from the meticulous, externalised narration characteristic of the work of one of the key practitioners of the nouveau roman, Alain Robbe-Grillet. Although critical analysis of Spark’s relationship with the anti-novel has largely been restricted to a small selection of overtly experimental novels written by the author during the early 1970s, this chapter demonstrates that the nouveau roman also served as a crucial influence on earlier works including 1960’s subversive social satire, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, as well the uncharacteristically expansive sociopolitical novel, The Mandelbaum Gate, published in 1965. Both texts, the chapter argues, reveal Spark actively interrogating the alternatively humorous and horrifying possibilities of the nouveau roman as a mode of writing. The chapter culminates with a discussion of The Driver’s Seat as Spark’s Spark’s most direct – and self-reflexive – encounter with the anti-novel.
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"John Naule Allen, ‘Railway Reading. With a Few Hints to Travellers’, Ainsworth’s Magazine, 24 (1853), 483—7 [483—5]." In Victorian Print Media, edited by Andrew King and John Plunkett. Oxford University PressOxford, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199270378.003.0044.

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Abstract When railway trips became a popular form of recreation in the 1850s, reading seemed the ideal way of passing the time en route. W. H. Smith’s book stalls became common sights at railway stations (see Section IV, ‘Our Modern Mercury’), and numerous publishers introduced their own cheap ‘Railway Libraries’. Ainsworth’s Magazine (1842—54) was filled with fiction, essays, and short comic sketches. Its desire to provide amusement is reflected in John Naule Allen’s humorous article, which pokes fun at the new craze for railway reading.
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Davis, Colin, and Elizabeth Fallaize. "Playing with the postmodern: Jean Echenoz’s Lac (1989)." In French Fiction in the Mitterrand Years. Oxford University PressOxford, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198159568.003.0005.

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Abstract The fictional world of Lac is immediately recognizable to its readers on two interconnected levels. On the one hand it displays the objects and signs, the fashions and spectacles of contemporary consumer society: characters wear fake designer sunglasses, watch game shows on television, listen to popular music on their walkmans, and shop in bland commercial centres. On the other hand, the characters are also the participants in a spy novel, and enact the rituals of surveillance and secret weapons, double-crossingand amorous intrigues familiar from the James Bond model. Yet the reader’s sense of familiarity is always at one remove: the text maintains a humorous and critical distance from both of these axes, signalling itself as a malicious mimic of the originals it imitates and revealing a sensibility which has positioned Echenoz as a postmodern cultural spectator. One of the purposes of this chapter will be to explore what such a position might entail, as well as to examine in more detail the way in which Echenoz exploits the thriller genre and evokes the scenes of contemporary urban life whilst revelling in humour and in the sheer possibilities of play in language.
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Skowera, Maciej, and Joanna Żygowska. "Krajobraz po „krajobrazie po Terakowskiej”, czyli o najnowszej polskiej fantastyce dziecięcej i młodzieżowej." In Imaginautka zaangażowana. Twórczość i biografia Doroty Terakowskiej z perspektywy XXI wieku. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego w Krakowie, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24917/9788380847460.21.

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The landscape after “the landscape after Terakowska,” or on the latest Polish children’s and young adult fantasy and science fiction The chapter is an attempt to outline the landscape of Polish children’s and young adult fantasy and science fiction in the last dozen or so years, with particular emphasis on the works of the most important authors, as well as on key development trends, popular topics, and original phenomena. Attention has been paid to the writings of Andrzej Maleszka, Marta Kisiel, Marcin Szczygielski, Justyna Bednarek, and Małgorzata Strękowska-Zaremba. In the course of the analyses of subsequent works, the authors of the text point out the most interesting plot, worldbuilding, topical, and motif solutions that can be identified on the Polish ground. They highlight, among other things, the works’ references to the Slavic past, combining humorous plots with reflectiveness, searching for new genres, numerous references to contemporary problems and fears about the future, and using fantasy and science fiction to present historical and socially sensitive content.
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Southern, Terry. "“Dark Laughter in the Towers”." In The Dixie Limited. University Press of Mississippi, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496803382.003.0024.

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This chapter reviews William Faulkner's 1929 novel As I Lay Dying, the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's journey to a cemetery in Jefferson, Mississippi. Addie's husband and five children, carrying her body in a coffin in a wagon, encounter various difficulties along the way. The chapter first discusses humor in existentialist literature before focusing on the absurd in As I Lay Dying. It also considers protagonists in English fiction who all possess candor and a sense of the absurd, including Jimmy Porter, Sebastian Dangerfield, Charles Lumley, Billy Liar, and Larry Vincent. It argues that the “grotesque” in Faulkner is not ordinarily read as humorous because the highly personalized style tends to obscure it.
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