Comic Sense: Reading Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Philip Roth

by Thomas Pughe

The idea for this study came to me in the course of my reading of innova- tive US-American! fiction of the last three decades. I observed that much of it is cast in the comic mode - or, more precisely, that there seems to be in contemporary fiction an affinity between 'innovation' and 'the comic' and that this affinity, furthermore, appears to be characteristic of postmo- dernism. It is obvious, at the same time, that comic has become an elusive and,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3764350237
• ISBN13: 9783764350239
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"