"Polhemus sketches several distinctions between nineteenth- and twentieth-century novelists and concludes that what most characterizes the nineteenth century, from the perspective of the twentieth, is the tendency in its comic fiction to criticize and to undermine the dogma and institutions of religion and to put faith instead of the existence of the comic perspective. Comic Faith is a virtuoso performance of impressive stature; I suspect the book will be influential for many years to come."—John Halperin, Modern Fiction Studies
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At the end of Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth, the artist Gulley Jimson is dying, but he tells the nun attending him he feels like laughing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
comic communion, comic gospel, united social intelligence, comic faith, crazy fabric, comic imagination, comic fiction, comic vision, comic language, comic perspective, comic expression, comic theory, comic spirit, comic tradition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vanity Fair, Nightmare Abbey, Finnegans Wake, Humpty Dumpty, Martin Chuzzlewit, Miss Bates, White Knight, Red Queen, James Joyce, Sir Willoughby, Tom Pinch, Becky Sharp, Jane Austen, Red King, Anna Livia, White Queen, Stephen Dedalus, Don Quixote, Frank Churchill, Jane Fairfax, Mark Tapley, Martin Chuzzleu'it, Miss Middleton, Miss Thorne, Vanitas Vanitatum New!
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At the end of Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth, the artist Gulley Jimson is dying, but he tells the nun attending him he feels like laughing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
comic communion, comic gospel, united social intelligence, comic faith, crazy fabric, comic imagination, comic fiction, comic vision, comic language, comic perspective, comic expression, comic theory, comic spirit, comic tradition Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vanity Fair, Nightmare Abbey, Finnegans Wake, Humpty Dumpty, Martin Chuzzlewit, Miss Bates, White Knight, Red Queen, James Joyce, Sir Willoughby, Tom Pinch, Becky Sharp, Jane Austen, Red King, Anna Livia, White Queen, Stephen Dedalus, Don Quixote, Frank Churchill, Jane Fairfax, Mark Tapley, Martin Chuzzleu'it, Miss Middleton, Miss Thorne, Vanitas Vanitatum New!
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- Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray on 40 pages
- Through The Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll on 27 pages
- Barchester Towers (Everyman's Library) by Anthony Trollope on 16 pages
- Martin Chuzzlewit (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens on 13 pages
- Laughter and Despair; Readings in Ten Novels of the Victorian Era by U. C. Knoepflmacher on 6 pages
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- Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel by Lisa Colletta on 5 pages
- Lovers, Clowns, and Fairies: An Essay on Comedies by Stuart M. Tave in Front Matter
- Movies About the Movies: Hollywood Reflected by Christopher Ames in Back Matter
- The Bible and the Comic Vision by J. William Whedbee in Back Matter
- Emma (World's Classics) by Jane Austen in Front Matter
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