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Bloomsbury Academic The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction: Who’s Laughing Now?

Name: The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction: Who's Laughing Now?
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Product Description The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction explores the importance of comedy in contemporary literature and culture. In an era largely defined by a mood of crisis, bleakness, cruelty, melancholia, environmental catastrophe and collapse, Huw Marsh argues that contemporary fiction is as likely to treat these subjects comically as it is to treat them gravely, and that the recognition and proper analysis of this humour opens up new ways to think about literature. Structured around readings of authors including Martin Amis, Nicola Barker, Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Howard Jacobson, Magnus Mills and Zadie Smith, this book suggests not only that much of the most interesting contemporary writing is funny and that there is a comic tendency in contemporary fiction, but also that this humour, this comic licence, allows writers of contemporary fiction to do peculiar and interesting things – things that are funny in the sense of odd or strange and that may in turn inspire a funny turn in readers. Marsh offers a series of original critical and theoretical frameworks for discussing questions of literary genre, style, affect and politics, demonstrating that comedy is an often neglected mode that plays a generative role in much of the most interesting contemporary writing, creating sites of rich political, stylistic, cognitive and ethical contestation whose analysis offers a new perspective on the present. Review We laugh in many ways and for different reasons, and we often laugh when reading contemporary British fiction―but why? Obviously, we need a new definition of English humor. Marsh provides it by elaborating a comprehensive theory of laughter that comes alive thanks to astute close readings illuminating the comic turn in British fiction. He offers all at once an encyclopedia of comedy and witty surveys of Martin Amis, Nicola Baker, Jonathan Coe, Magnus Mills, Howard Jacobson and Zadie Smith. This eminently teachable book is bound to become a classic of humor studies. --Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania, USAThis serious work on comedy should be read by everyone with an interest in contemporary English fiction. In clear and intelligent prose, Huw Marsh’s insightful book engages with major and, in some cases, critically underappreciated authors to offer new ideas about the comic and a new shape to the field. --Robert Eaglestone, Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway, University of London[A] detailed and compelling showcase for analysing modern literature as comedy. --The Humour Studies Digest About the Author Huw Marsh is Lecturer in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He is the author of Beryl Bainbridge (2014) and works mainly on post-war and contemporary fiction.

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Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1474293034
Category: Books > Subjects > Humour > Humorous Verse
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 06 August 2020
Listed Since: 08 November 2019

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