The Comedy of Entropy: Humour/Narrative/Reading

by Patrick O'Neill

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Entropic comedy is the phrase coined by Patrick O'Neill in this study to identify a particular mode of twentieth-century narrative that is not generally recognized. He describes it as the narrative expression of forms of decentred humour, or what might more loosely be called 'black humour.'
O'Neill begins his investigation by examining the rise of an essentially new form of humour over the last three hundred years or so in the context of a rapid...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1487587066

ISBN13:9781487587062

Release Date:December 1990

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Length:325 Pages

Weight:1.11 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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