The Ironic Temper and the Comic Imagination (Humor in Life and Letters)

By Morton Gurewitch

The Ironic Temper and the Comic Imagination examines and illuminates the role which the ironic temper plays in the creation of complex literary comedy. The book focuses on ironic comedy, though not of the kind that is characterized by the surprises and shocks, the incongruities and reversals, of circumstantial irony. Circumstantial--or situational--irony cannot stand alone; it serves, for example, the aggressive functions of satire, or the irrational impulses of farce, or the benevolent, whimsical, or pain-defeating energies of humor.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814325130
• ISBN13: 9780814325131
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.