The Comedy of Entropy : : Humour/Narrative/Reading / / Patrick O'Neill.
Entropic comedy is the phrase coined by Patrick O'Neill in this study to identify a particular mode of twentieth-century narrative that is not generally recognized. He describes it as the narrative expression of forms of decentred humour, or what might more loosely be called 'black humour....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. Contexts: Entropy and Humour
- 1. Entropy: The Loss of Certainty
- 2. Humour: Reconstructing a Spectrum
- 3. Boundaries Blurred: The Importance of Being Earnest
- II. Pretexts: Humour and Narrative
- 4. Theoretical Worlds: Humour, Play, and Narrative
- 5. Homologous Worlds: The Literary and the Ludie
- III. Texts: Narrative and Reading
- 6. The Comedy of Entropy: A Narrative Taxonomy
- 7. Entropic Satire: The Observation of Anomie
- 8. Entropic Irony: Information and Interpretation
- 9. Entropic Parody: The Structuration of Uncertainty
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index