The Irresponsible Self
On Laughter and the Novel
Edición de la obra The Irresponsible Self
| Autor | James Wood |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Fecha de publicación | June 16, 2004 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 320 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780374177379 |
| ISBN-10 | 0374177376 |
| OCLC | 53287677 |
| LCCN | 2003022955 |
| Número de Cutter | W876i |
Defends what Wood calls "secular comedy"-human, tragicomic, forgiving, bound up with the very origins of the novel -against the narrower "religious comedy" of satire and farce, which is corrective, punitive, and theatrical. [publisher web site].