Comic Faith: The Great Tradition from Austen to Joyce (Paperback)

by Robert M. Polhemus (Author) "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..." (more)
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"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

• Paperback: 408 pages
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (October 1, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0226673219
• ISBN-13: 978-0226673219
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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