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Irony's Antics : Walser, Kafka, Roth, and the German Comic Tradition / Erica Weitzman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weitzman, Erica, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roth, Joseph, 1894-1939--Criticism and interpretation.
- Roth, Joseph.
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924--Criticism and interpretation.
- Kafka, Franz.
- Walser, Robert, 1878-1956--Criticism and interpretation.
- Walser, Robert.
- Comic, The, in literature.
- Irony in literature.
- German literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Irony's Antics marks a major intervention into the underexplored role of the comic and its relationship to irony in German letters.Combining theoretical breadth with close textual analysis, Erica Weitzman shows how irony, a key term for the German romantics, reemerged in the early twentieth century from a postromantic relegation.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the comic ethos
- Senses of humor : the origins of comic irony
- The playgrounds of literature : Robert Walser
- Slap happy : comic Kafka
- Bearing wit to history : Joseph Roth
- Conclusion : last laughs.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-6771-9
- OCLC:
- 903861159
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