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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 104–119.
Published: 01 May 2021
... endurance of unchangeable existential conditions. She instead repurposes the tragicomic for the ecological and political needs of the contemporary to produce “survival laughter,” an attitude that recognizes the tragic conditions of catastrophe but simultaneously uses comedy to protect the psyche from...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 138–140.
Published: 01 May 1999
...ERIK DUSSERE CAROLE ANNE TAYLOR, The Tragedy and Comedy of Resistance: Reading Modernity Through Black Women’s Fiction (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), pp. 288, $39.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 1999 1999 Intercultural Transmission
CAROLE...
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Novel (2004) 38 (1): 57–83.
Published: 01 May 2004
... . “Laughter.” Comedy . Ed. Wylie Sypher. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1980 . Breton , André , Anthology of Black Humor . Trans. Mark Polizzotti. San Francisco: City Lights, 1997 . Brown , Bill . “The Secret Life of Things (Virginia Woolf and the Matter of Modernism).” Modernism...
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Novel (2003) 36 (3): 351–373.
Published: 01 November 2003
... UP , 1984 . Barthes , Roland . Critical Essays . Trans. Richard Howard. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1972 . Bell , Michael . Sentimentalism, Ethics, and the Culture of Feeling . New York: St. Martin’s, 2000 . Bergson , Henri . “Laughter.” Comedy: Meaning and Form . Ed...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 5–23.
Published: 01 August 2004
... characters and
attributes of tragedy, comedy, and heroic drama. I want to stress that while co-
medic rakes, tragic tyrants, and the super-heroes of heroic drama are all discrete
character types, they are remarkably similar in their portrayal of a "heroic" mas-
culinity: they are all "Pretenders" who...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 472–476.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., in histories of humor more generally. The now orthodox posi-
tion on rude laughter is Mikhail Bakhtin’s, which holds that low comedy is leveling and
liberating—a suspension of the rules, an upending of accustomed social hierarchies, a joyful
reduction of the body back to its mostly widely shared functions...
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Novel (2017) 50 (2): 217–235.
Published: 01 August 2017
... sacrificed, in order to ensure the good of the populace ( Bremmer 300–302 ). Frye has described the character as typical of ironic tragedy and ironic comedy. In ironic tragedy, the pharmakos is an isolated tragic hero, suffering a doom out of proportion with any of his or her actions. In ironic comedy...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 251–270.
Published: 01 August 2010
... and that echoes, in key respects, the plot of romantic courtship and
bourgeois advancement in which it is embedded.
Although it has become the epitome of the horror novel, two literary modes—
the gothic and the domestic comedy of manners—compete and interact through-
out Dracula. On the one hand, the two...
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Novel (2023) 56 (3): 481–486.
Published: 01 November 2023
... called “posthuman comedy,” McGurl argued, following Henri Bergson's distinctive theorization of comedy, that genre is an “occasion for the externally imposed repetition of a set of rules,” an “encrustation upon the primordial flexibility of story” ( “Posthuman” 550 ). Returning to the same observation...
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“No Such Thing as a Voice Pure and Simple”: Henry James's Elocutionary Insecurities and The American
Novel (2018) 51 (3): 502–524.
Published: 01 November 2018
... reminds him might not be “the real thing” after all. In contrast, Valentine may be a pampered example of the privileged classes, delivering his lines with the gusto of a French actor in the Comédie. But he is not existentially stale, as Newman would have him, but valiantly able to turn his aristocratic...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 79–100.
Published: 01 May 2018
... Could I Forebear Smiling at My Self’: A Reply to Wai Chee Dimock .” Critical Inquiry 39 . 3 ( 2013 ): 632 – 38 . McGurl Mark . “ The Posthuman Comedy .” Critical Inquiry 38 . 3 ( 2012 ): 533 – 53 . Morton Timothy . Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 20–22.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Srinivas Aravamudan © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Works Cited Bergson Henri . “Laughter.” Comedy . Ed. Sypher Wylie . New York : Anchor , 1956 . 61 – 190 . Lahusen Thomas Kuperman Gene . Late Soviet Culture: From Perestroika...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 424–437.
Published: 01 November 2013
.... Iswolsky Hélène . Bloomington : Indiana UP , 1984 . Bergson Henri . “Laughter.” Comedy: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic . Trans. Brereton Cloudesely Rothwell Fred . Rockville : Arc Manor , 2008 . Bloch Ernst . “Nonsynchronism and the Obligation to Its...
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Novel (2006) 39 (2): 288–290.
Published: 01 August 2006
... between Natives and non-Natives living in
Canada and the United States." Ultimately, King's comedy is a force which "takes on a life
of its own in a Native North American context by bringing communities together, facilitat-
ing conflict resolution, and establishing a cxlanmon bond between...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 495–498.
Published: 01 November 2015
... moments in similar terms. Pynchon ceaselessly subjects Benny Profane “to the violence that comes with the choreographed chance of slapstick comedy” (Belletto 40). Profane is the victim of so many unlikely accidents that it begins to seem as though he is fated to suffer, and in a sense, he is. Pynchon...
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Novel (2009) 42 (1): 145–148.
Published: 01 May 2009
... to the 1862 edition of the novel, his aim here is not so
much the progressive revealing of a secret but the arousal of “the reader’s interest in fol-
lowing the train of circumstances by which these foreseen events are brought about” (qtd.
37). Not unlike the way Shakespeare’s “dark comedies” put us...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 216–222.
Published: 01 August 2009
...
Etymologically, parabasis is a going aside, digression, or stepping forward. In
Greek Old Comedy it is the practice of the chorus coming forward to address
the audience on a topic unrelated to the theme of the play. According to de Man,
“Parabasis is the interruption of a discourse by a shift...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 121–125.
Published: 01 May 2011
... comedies
“necessarily [dismantle] the Enlightenment logics of communal and public belonging that
depend . . . on inoperative notions of sympathy and identity” (213). The reading of Night-
wood is especially compelling as it unfolds a passing reference to Felix Volkbein’s attraction
to “the emotional...
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Novel (2002) 35 (2-3): iv.
Published: 01 November 2002
... in Contemporary U.S. Fiction.
CAROLE ANNE TAYLOR is Professor in English and African American/American Cultural
Studies at Bates College. Her most recent book is The Tragedy and Comedy of Resistance:
Reading Modernity through Black Women's Fiction. She is currently at work on a project
that examines...
Journal Article
Novel (1999) 33 (1): 129–133.
Published: 01 May 1999
... the trope
to the clear reality of the intended meaning. He next locates this empiricist tendency and its
trademark use of irony in literary journalism, scholarly histories, tragedy and comedy
(represented by LeCarre, Orwell, and Lodge novels), and contemporary poetry. Easthope's
readings...
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