| Description |
xi, 156 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 125-126. |
| Contents |
Towards a definition of black humor -- The metaphysics of multiplicity; and, the thousand and one masks of John Barth -- The unsensing of the self; and, the unconfirmed thesis of Kurt Vonnegut -- The politics of parody; and, the comic apocalypses of Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Berger, Thomas Pynchon, and Robert Coover -- The aesthetics of anxiety; and, the conformist heroes of Bruce Jay Friedman and Charles Wright. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Black humor.
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| ISBN |
0821401254 |
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9780821401255 |
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