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The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction - Who's Laughing Now? (Hardcover)
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The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction - Who's Laughing Now? (Hardcover)
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The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction explores the
importance of comedy in contemporary literature and culture. In an
era largely defined by a mood of crisis, bleakness, cruelty,
melancholia, environmental catastrophe and collapse, Huw Marsh
argues that contemporary fiction is as likely to treat these
subjects comically as it is to treat them gravely, and that the
recognition and proper analysis of this humour opens up new ways to
think about literature. Structured around readings of authors
including Martin Amis, Nicola Barker, Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe,
Howard Jacobson, Magnus Mills and Zadie Smith, this book suggests
not only that much of the most interesting contemporary writing is
funny and that there is a comic tendency in contemporary fiction,
but also that this humour, this comic licence, allows writers of
contemporary fiction to do peculiar and interesting things - things
that are funny in the sense of odd or strange and that may in turn
inspire a funny turn in readers. Marsh offers a series of original
critical and theoretical frameworks for discussing questions of
literary genre, style, affect and politics, demonstrating that
comedy is an often neglected mode that plays a generative role in
much of the most interesting contemporary writing, creating sites
of rich political, stylistic, cognitive and ethical contestation
whose analysis offers a new perspective on the present.
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