Jolly Good Detecting Humor in English Crime Fiction of the Golden Age |
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| Author:
| Shaw, Bruce |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7864-7886-6 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2013 |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $49.95USD $5.00 |
Book Description:
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Explores selected authors who make extensive use of humour in English detective/crime fiction. This is not intended as an exhaustive study but as an introduction into the best produced by a handful of very capable authors. What the humorists seek is to surprise the reader by overturning expectations using a repertoire of stylistic conceits and motifs. Humour has a liberating effect but is concerned too with "comic contrast" through ugliness and caricature.
Explores selected authors who make extensive use of humour in English detective/crime fiction. This is not intended as an exhaustive study but as an introduction into the best produced by a handful of very capable authors. What the humorists seek is to surprise the reader by overturning expectations using a repertoire of stylistic conceits and motifs. Humour has a liberating effect but is concerned too with "comic contrast" through ugliness and caricature.