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Page 125
... comic Irish peasants . William Carleton was less preoccupied with comic Irishmen ; even so , his most famous novel , Fardorougha the Miser , does not bear much examination . Dimly , in this story of a miser's obsession and the brutal ...
... comic Irish peasants . William Carleton was less preoccupied with comic Irishmen ; even so , his most famous novel , Fardorougha the Miser , does not bear much examination . Dimly , in this story of a miser's obsession and the brutal ...
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... comic placed in his mouth , has been translated to a realm in which moral considerations are strictly irrelevant . Mrs Gamp , of course , is the shining example in Dickens of what I have called the poetry of the comic ; only a great ...
... comic placed in his mouth , has been translated to a realm in which moral considerations are strictly irrelevant . Mrs Gamp , of course , is the shining example in Dickens of what I have called the poetry of the comic ; only a great ...
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... comic writer , a comic writer of the quality of Rabelais and Sterne . In my view this is the most useful point of departure from which to approach him . In Ulysses Joyce , more than Fielding ever did , is writing the comic epic , and ...
... comic writer , a comic writer of the quality of Rabelais and Sterne . In my view this is the most useful point of departure from which to approach him . In Ulysses Joyce , more than Fielding ever did , is writing the comic epic , and ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 50 |
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