Comic turn in contemporary English fiction: who's laughing now?
"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 like...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "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."-- |
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| adam_text | Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction: A comic turn in contemporary English fiction? The comic turn Contemporary English fiction Who’s laughing now? 1 3 8 19 1 2 3 4 ‘Sinking giggling into the sea’?: Jonathan Coe and the politics of comedy Jokes and/as innovative action From satire to comedy Metacomedy 21 29 40 45 ‘A grave disquisition’: Style, class and comedy in the novels of Martin Amis The ethics of style High and low: Hierarchies of comic style Comedy, class and style from The Information to Lionel Asbo 53 53 57 62 ‘Talking about things we didn’t want to talk about’: Zadie Smith and laughter What’s so hysterical about hysterical realism? Mixed emotions: Laughter and tears Comedy and community 77 79 86 94 ‘Like a monkey with a miniature cymbal’: Magnus Mills and the comedy of repetition Comedy, surprise and repetition Magnus Mills Deadpan; dead bodies: The Restraint of Beasts Working to rule, ruling the workplace: The Scheme for Full Employment and The Maintenance of Headway Funny as hell: Beckett, O’Brien, Mills 101 101 104 106 112 121
viii 5 6 Contents ‘Simple high jinks’?: Nicola Barker and the comedy of paradox Pooterism, pedantry and the logic of the absurd: Incongruity as comic practice ‘Is the fucking carnival in town or what?’: Satire, the grotesque and the carnivalesque Laughter and redemption: From comedy to humour Rabbit-duck/Duck-rabbit ‘No drawing of lines’: Howard Jacobson and the boundaries of the comic Lancing the boil: Zoo Time, Comingfrom Behind and the necessity of offence ‘Jew know why’?: The Finkler Question, Jewish jokes and the politics of joke-telling communities ‘Not only funny’: Kalooki Nights and Holocaust comedy Comedy Trumped? Pussy and the challenge for contemporary satire 131 132 140 153 164 167 170 180 186 196 Conclusion: The comic turn in contemporary English fiction Selling the past as the future: Nationhood, work and performance in Julian Barnes’s England, England 201 Bibliography Index 211 238 204
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Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction: A comic turn in contemporary English fiction? The comic turn Contemporary English fiction Who’s laughing now? 1 3 8 19 1 2 3 4 ‘Sinking giggling into the sea’?: Jonathan Coe and the politics of comedy Jokes and/as innovative action From satire to comedy Metacomedy 21 29 40 45 ‘A grave disquisition’: Style, class and comedy in the novels of Martin Amis The ethics of style High and low: Hierarchies of comic style Comedy, class and style from The Information to Lionel Asbo 53 53 57 62 ‘Talking about things we didn’t want to talk about’: Zadie Smith and laughter What’s so hysterical about hysterical realism? Mixed emotions: Laughter and tears Comedy and community 77 79 86 94 ‘Like a monkey with a miniature cymbal’: Magnus Mills and the comedy of repetition Comedy, surprise and repetition Magnus Mills Deadpan; dead bodies: The Restraint of Beasts Working to rule, ruling the workplace: The Scheme for Full Employment and The Maintenance of Headway Funny as hell: Beckett, O’Brien, Mills 101 101 104 106 112 121
viii 5 6 Contents ‘Simple high jinks’?: Nicola Barker and the comedy of paradox Pooterism, pedantry and the logic of the absurd: Incongruity as comic practice ‘Is the fucking carnival in town or what?’: Satire, the grotesque and the carnivalesque Laughter and redemption: From comedy to humour Rabbit-duck/Duck-rabbit ‘No drawing of lines’: Howard Jacobson and the boundaries of the comic Lancing the boil: Zoo Time, Comingfrom Behind and the necessity of offence ‘Jew know why’?: The Finkler Question, Jewish jokes and the politics of joke-telling communities ‘Not only funny’: Kalooki Nights and Holocaust comedy Comedy Trumped? Pussy and the challenge for contemporary satire 131 132 140 153 164 167 170 180 186 196 Conclusion: The comic turn in contemporary English fiction Selling the past as the future: Nationhood, work and performance in Julian Barnes’s England, England 201 Bibliography Index 211 238 204
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| spelling | Marsh, Huw ca. 20./21. Jh. Verfasser (DE-588)1060681560 aut Comic turn in contemporary English fiction who's laughing now? Huw Marsh London Bloomsbury Academic 2020 x, 247 Seiten txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A comic turn in contemporary English fiction? The comic turn Contemporary English fiction Who's laughing now? -- 1. 'Sinking giggling into the sea'?: Jonathan Coe and the politics of comedy Jokes and/as innovative action From satire to comedy Metacomedy -- 2. 'A grave disquisition': Style, class and comedy in the novels of Martin Amis The ethics of style High and low: Hierarchies of comic style Comedy, class and style from The Information to Lionel Asbo -- 3. 'Talking about things we didn't want to talk about': Zadie Smith and laughter What's so hysterical about hysterical realism? Mixed emotions: Laughter and tears 'Talking about things we didn't want to talk about': Comedy and community -- 4. 'Like a monkey with a miniature cymbal': Magnus Mills and the comedy of repetition Comedy, surprise and repetition Magnus Mills Deadpan; dead bodies: The Restraint of Beasts Working to rule, ruling the workplace: The Scheme for Full Employment and The Maintenance of Headway Funny as hell: Beckett, O'Brien, Mills -- 5. 'Simple high jinks'?: Nicola Barker and the comedy of paradox Pooterism, pedantry and the logic of the absurd: Incongruity as comic practice 'Is the fucking carnival in town or what?': Satire, the grotesque and the carnivalesque Laughter and redemption: From comedy to humour Rabbit-duck/Duck-rabbit -- 6. 'No drawing of lines': Howard Jacobson and the boundaries of the comic Lancing the boil: Zoo Time, Coming from Behind and the necessity of offence 'Jew know why'?: The Finkler Question , Jewish Jokes and the politics of joke-telling communities 'Not only funny': Kalooki Nights and Holocaust comedy Comedy Trumped? Pussy and the challenge for contemporary satire Conclusion: The comic turn in contemporary English fiction Selling the past as the future: Nationhood, work and performance in Julian Barnes's England, England -- Bibliography. - Mode of access: World Wide Web "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."-- Geschichte 1980-2015 gnd rswk-swf Literary theory / bicssc Humorous fiction Humor in literature English fiction / History and criticism Wit and humor / Political aspects Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd rswk-swf Komischer Roman (DE-588)4201412-8 gnd rswk-swf Electronic books Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 s Komischer Roman (DE-588)4201412-8 s Geschichte 1980-2015 z DE-604 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF 978-1-4742-9305-1 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe 978-1-4742-9304-4 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe 978-1-4742-9306-8 Digitalisierung UB Augsburg - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=032243191&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis Digitalisierung UB Augsburg - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=032243191&sequence=000003&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Klappentext |
| spellingShingle | Marsh, Huw ca. 20./21. Jh Comic turn in contemporary English fiction who's laughing now? Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A comic turn in contemporary English fiction? The comic turn Contemporary English fiction Who's laughing now? -- 1. 'Sinking giggling into the sea'?: Jonathan Coe and the politics of comedy Jokes and/as innovative action From satire to comedy Metacomedy -- 2. 'A grave disquisition': Style, class and comedy in the novels of Martin Amis The ethics of style High and low: Hierarchies of comic style Comedy, class and style from The Information to Lionel Asbo -- 3. 'Talking about things we didn't want to talk about': Zadie Smith and laughter What's so hysterical about hysterical realism? Mixed emotions: Laughter and tears 'Talking about things we didn't want to talk about': Comedy and community -- 4. 'Like a monkey with a miniature cymbal': Magnus Mills and the comedy of repetition Comedy, surprise and repetition Magnus Mills Deadpan; dead bodies: The Restraint of Beasts Working to rule, ruling the workplace: The Scheme for Full Employment and The Maintenance of Headway Funny as hell: Beckett, O'Brien, Mills -- 5. 'Simple high jinks'?: Nicola Barker and the comedy of paradox Pooterism, pedantry and the logic of the absurd: Incongruity as comic practice 'Is the fucking carnival in town or what?': Satire, the grotesque and the carnivalesque Laughter and redemption: From comedy to humour Rabbit-duck/Duck-rabbit -- 6. 'No drawing of lines': Howard Jacobson and the boundaries of the comic Lancing the boil: Zoo Time, Coming from Behind and the necessity of offence 'Jew know why'?: The Finkler Question , Jewish Jokes and the politics of joke-telling communities 'Not only funny': Kalooki Nights and Holocaust comedy Comedy Trumped? Pussy and the challenge for contemporary satire Conclusion: The comic turn in contemporary English fiction Selling the past as the future: Nationhood, work and performance in Julian Barnes's England, England -- Bibliography. - Mode of access: World Wide Web Literary theory / bicssc Humorous fiction Humor in literature English fiction / History and criticism Wit and humor / Political aspects Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd Komischer Roman (DE-588)4201412-8 gnd |
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