The Contemporary American Comic Epic

The Contemporary American Comic Epic
Author :
Publisher : Detroit : Wayne State University Press
Total Pages : 232
Release :
ISBN-10 : PSU:000032656046
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Contemporary American Comic Epic by : Elaine B. Safer

Download or read book The Contemporary American Comic Epic written by Elaine B. Safer and published by Detroit : Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elaine Safer's critically acclaimed work analyzes how 20th century epic writers make ironic use of traditional themes and patterns to develop a new genre, the American comic epic novel. Illustrating practical criticism at its best, the book closely scrutinizes six modern comic novels from John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis , and Ken Kesey. Safer supports her study with a firm grasp of the English epic of John Milton, the American epics of Cotton Mather and Walt Whitman, and the comic tradition of Rabelais, Cervantes, and Fielding. Her examination allows the modern American absurdist novel to be seen within a tradition and yet as distinctively modern. In addition, the book provides a clear and wide-ranging theoretical framework for the absurd and for black humor, terms too loosely defined in the past.


The Contemporary American Comic Epic Related Books

The Contemporary American Comic Epic
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Elaine B. Safer
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Elaine Safer's critically acclaimed work analyzes how 20th century epic writers make ironic use of traditional themes and patterns to develop a new genre, the A
The Last American
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: John Wagner
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-06 - Publisher: 2000 AD

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

WRITERS ALAN GRANT & JOHN WAGNER ARTIST MIKE MCMAHON I pledged allegiance to the flag of the United Sates of America, and to the republic for which it stood, lo
The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 420
Authors: Catherine Morley
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-25 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic. It analyses the tradition of the epic as i
Masters of American Comics
Language: en
Pages: 341
Authors: John Carlin
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Presents the work of America's most popular and influential comic artists, and includes critical essays accompanying each artist's drawings.
Captain America Epic Collection
Language: en
Pages: 477
Authors: Mark Waid
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-13 - Publisher: Marvel Entertainment

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Operation: Rebirth! Captain America, thought dead by the nation he loves, returns to the land of the living with a vengeance...but his unlikely savior is one of