Playboys and Killjoys

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Harry Levin--one of America's major literary critics--offers a brilliant and original study of the whole world of comedy, concentrating on playwrights through t

How to Tell God from the Devil

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How to Tell God From the Devil is the first book to depict the relationship among comedy, the Devil, and God. Drawing from Jewish and Christian theories, Eckard

Linguistic Theories of Humor

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So this English professor comes into class and starts talking about the textual organization of jokes, the taxonomy of puns, the relations between the linguisti

A Companion to Calderón de la Barca

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The first comprehensive study of Calderón in EnglishPedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681) is one of the most important dramatists - many would say the single

The Counter-Memorial Impulse in Twentieth-Century English Fiction

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A wide-ranging study that examines the tendency in 20th-century English fiction to treat grief as an occasion for social critique, unconventional readings of wo