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Calvinist Humor in American Literature

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Michael Dunne is professor emeritus of English at Middle Tennessee State University. He is the author of several books, including Intertextual Encounters in American Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture. He is coeditor, with his wife, Sara Lewis Dunne, of The Greenwood Chronology of American Popular Culture. Klappentext Though the phrase ?Calvinist Humor? may seem to be an oxymoron, Dunne, in highly original and unfailingly interesting readings of major American fiction writers, uncovers and traces two recurrent strands of Calvinist humor descending from Puritan times far into the twentieth century. Calvinist doctrine views mankind as fallen, apt to engage in any number of imperfect behaviors. Calvinist humor, Dunne explains, consists in the perception of this imperfection. When we perceive that only others are imperfect, we participate in the form of Calvinist humor preferred by William Bradford and Nathaneal West. When we perceive that others are imperfect, as we all are, we participate in the form preferred by Mark Twain and William Faulkner, for example. Either by noting their characters? inferiority, or by observing ways in which we are all far from perfect, Dunne observes, American writers have found much to laugh about and many occasions for Calvinist humor.

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Authors Michael Dunne
Publisher Louisiana state univ pr
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.12.2007
 
EAN 9780807132609
ISBN 978-0-8071-3260-9
No. of pages 219
Dimensions 140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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