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The Irresponsible SelfThe Irresponsible Self

The Irresponsible Self2004

James Wood

About this book

Defends what Wood calls "secular comedy"-human, tragicomic, forgiving, bound up with the very origins of the novel -against the narrower "religious comedy" of satire and farce, which is corrective, punitive, and theatrical. [publisher web site].

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First published
2004
OL Work ID
OL270265W

Subjects

FictionComedyHistory and criticismFiction, history and criticism

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