Literary Wit |
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| Author:
| Michelson, Bruce |
| ISBN: | 978-1-55849-274-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
| Publisher: | University of Massachusetts Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $26.95 |
Book Description:
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This book offers a fresh examination of literary wit as a distinct variety of discourse - fundamentally different from wit, humour and laughter in nonliterary contexts. The author explores how wit can transform fiction, plays and poetry, providing ""a fire that keeps our imaginative literature hot"".
This book offers a fresh examination of literary wit as a distinct variety of discourse - fundamentally different from wit, humour and laughter in nonliterary contexts. The author explores how wit can transform fiction, plays and poetry, providing ""a fire that keeps our imaginative literature hot"".