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Comic Transactions : Literature, Humor, and the Politics of Community in Twentieth-Century Britain
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- Creator
- James F. English
- Included Title
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- JSTOR ebooks
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
- ©1994
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- text file PDF
- ISBNs
- 0801429536, 9781501734250, 1501734253
- OCLC
- on1129149657
- In English.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface / English, James F. -- Introduction: Humor; Politics, Community -- One. Covert Operations: The Unworking of the "Working Community" in The Secret Agent -- Two. Imagining a Community of Men: Black(shirt) Humor in The Apes of God -- Three. Broken English: Disarticulated Community in Between the Acts -- Four. Barbarism as Culturism: Lucky Jim and the Politics of the Campus Novel -- Five. Actually Existing Postmodernism: The Comedy of Disorganization in The Golden Notebook -- Six. Community Relations: Policing Jokes in The Satanic Verses -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index
Subjects
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Community life -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
- Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
- Humorous stories, English -- History and criticism.
- English wit and humor -- History and criticism.
- Comic, The, in literature.