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Index
Title Page
Table of Contents
Introduction: Comedy and the Irresponsible Self
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Don Quixote’s Old and New Testaments
Shakespeare and the Pathos of Rambling
How Shakespeare’s “Irresponsibility” - Saved Coleridge
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IV
Dostoevsky’s God
I
II
III
Isaac Babel and the Dangers of Exaggeration
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II
III
Saltykov-Shchedrin’s Subversion of Hypocrisy
Anna Karenina and Characterization
Italo Svevo’s Unreliable Comedy
Giovanni Verga’s Comic Sympathy
Joseph Roth’s Empire of Signs
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II
III
Bohumil Hrabal’s Comic World
J. F. Powers and the Priests
Hysterical Realism
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II
III
Jonathan Franzen and the “Social Novel”
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II
Tom Wolfe’s Shallowness, and the Trouble with Information
Salman Rushdie’s Nobu Novel
Monica Ali’s Novelties
Coetzee’s Disgrace: A Few Skeptical Thoughts
Saul Bellow’s Comic Style
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IV
V
The Real Mr. Biswas
V. S. Pritchett and English Comedy
Henry Green’s England
A Long Day at the Chocolate Bar Factory: David Bezmozgis’s Compassionate Irony
ALSO BY JAMES WOOD
Acclaim for James Wood
Copyright Page
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