A cheerful nihilism;: Confidence and "the absurd" in American humorous fiction

By Richard Boyd Hauck

Book Overview

"The awareness that the absurd view is both progressive an destructive, serious and hilarious,yet the only possible view, permeated American humor," writes Richard Hauck in the opening chapter of this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253313457
• ISBN13: 9780253313454
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Indiana,
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.