Bibliograph

Dark humor, edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom ; volume editor, Blake Hobby

Type

Label

Dark humor, edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom ; volume editor, Blake Hobby

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dark humor

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

440562884

Responsibility statement

edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom ; volume editor, Blake Hobby

Series statement

Bloom's literary themes

Summary

Traces humor in literature and the literary devices used to create it while explaining the importance of satirical wit

Table Of Contents

"Aristophanes' comic apocalypse" / by Louise Cowan, in The Terrain of comedy (1984) -- "The Theatre of the Absurd" / by Martin Esslin, in Theatre in the Twentieth Century (1956) -- "Catch-22 and angry humor: a study of the normative values of satire" / by James Nagel, in Studies in American Humor (1974) -- "Dark humor in Cat's Cradle" / by Blake Hobby -- "A Clockwork Orange and the mataphysics of slapstick" / by Matthew J. Bolton -- "The comedy of entropy: the contexts of black humour" / by Patrick O'Neill, in Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (1983) -- "Elements of dark humor in Dante's Divine Comedy" / by Lauren P. De La Vars -- "When farce turns into something else: Harold Pinter's The Dumb Wait" / by Scott Walters -- "Observations on black humor in Gogol and Nabokov" / by Woodin W. Rowe, in The Slavic and East European Journal (1974) -- "Clichâes, superficial story-telling, and the dark humor of Flannery O'Connor's 'A good man is hard to find'" / by Robert C. Evans -- "The rejection of Falstaff" / by A.C. Bradley, in Oxford Lectures on Poetry (1909) -- "'Almost ridiculous': dark humor in Eliot's 'The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock'" / by Robert C. Evans -- "Wood's Halfpence" / by Leslie Stephen, in Swift (1882) -- "The Mysterious stranger and '3,000 years among the microbes': chemerical realities and nightmarish transformations" / by Patricia M. Mandia, in Comedic pathos: black humor in Twain's fiction (1991) -- "The saddest joke: Sherman Alexie's blues" / by James A. Crank -- "The dark humor of White Noise" / by Joseph Dewey -- "Dark humor in Edward Albee's Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?" / by Kate Falvey -- "'Too terribly good to be printed': Charlotte Gilman's 'The Yellow wallpaper'" / by Conrad Shumaker, in American Literature (1985)

Target audience

adolescent

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