| Description |
196 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 186-189. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Summary |
Tobias examines Thurber's comic technique as an art that grows and develops throughout his work, and accesses Thurber's contribution to the American imagination. |
| Contents |
The pleasure dome -- The subjects of comedy. The comedy of the human condition ; The thin line between comedy and pathos ; Comedy as criticism -- Comic masks. Comic masks and the Self ; Pure and impure comedy ; Comedy and human emotions -- The comic ending. The struggle in Thurber's comedy ; The stock masks in the contest ; The victory at the end -- The beast in the marges of the mind. The beast in the individual ; The beast in the cliche ; The beast in society -- The beast of ritual bondage: the fables. The fable as comic form ; The familiar habit and statement ; The superior position of the reader -- Incongruity: romances for adults. The vision ; The method ; The criticism of life -- The unsound and the fuzzy. Laughter with ; Laughter against ; Laughter transformed -- The art of James Thurber. His world ; The tension in Thurber's world ; The significance of the tension ; The resolution ; The style and texture of Thurber's world. |
| Subject |
Thurber, James, 1894-1961 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Humorous stories, American -- History and criticism.
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American wit and humor -- History and criticism.
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Comic, The.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Tobias, Richard C. (Richard Clark), 1925- Art of James Thurber. Athens, Ohio University Press [1970, c1969] (OCoLC)644726094 |
| ISBN |
0821400584 |
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9780821400586 |
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