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- catalog abstract ""This book offers a fresh examination of literary wit as a distinct variety of discourse - one that is fundamentally different from wit, humor, and laughter in nonliterary contexts. Bruce Michelson moves beyond outmoded assumptions and canonical authorities to explore how wit can transform fiction, plays, and poetry, providing "a fire that keeps our imaginative literature hot."" "Michelson argues that to achieve a modernized and less-reductive understanding of the comic mode, conventional ideas must be extended, refreshed, qualified, and ultimately left behind. Revisiting Bergson, Freud, Bakhtin, and other authorities, he develops a new description of literary wit, with an emphasis on brevity, eloquence, and surprise, and gives special attention to the power and provenance of the modern epigram." "To develop this new approach, Michelson explores Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar and Oscar Wilde's "Preface" to The Picture of Dorian Gray. He also offers the first extended discussion of two celebrated recent dramas - Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and Margaret Edson's Pulitzer-winning Wit - as well as insightful readings of major poems by Richard Wilbur. He concludes with a suggestive look at the contemporary revolution in cognitive science and its implications for our understanding of the comic dimension in modern literature."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12000457.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Michelson argues that to achieve a modernized and less-reductive understanding of the comic mode, conventional ideas must be extended, refreshed, qualified, and ultimately left behind. Revisiting Bergson, Freud, Bakhtin, and other authorities, he develops a new description of literary wit, with an emphasis on brevity, eloquence, and surprise, and gives special attention to the power and provenance of the modern epigram."".
- catalog description ""This book offers a fresh examination of literary wit as a distinct variety of discourse - one that is fundamentally different from wit, humor, and laughter in nonliterary contexts. Bruce Michelson moves beyond outmoded assumptions and canonical authorities to explore how wit can transform fiction, plays, and poetry, providing "a fire that keeps our imaginative literature hot.""".
- catalog description ""To develop this new approach, Michelson explores Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar and Oscar Wilde's "Preface" to The Picture of Dorian Gray. He also offers the first extended discussion of two celebrated recent dramas - Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and Margaret Edson's Pulitzer-winning Wit - as well as insightful readings of major poems by Richard Wilbur. He concludes with a suggestive look at the contemporary revolution in cognitive science and its implications for our understanding of the comic dimension in modern literature."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "A Description of Literary Wit -- A Calendar and a Preface: Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar and Oscar Wilde's Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Witty Plays, Witty Poems: Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and Poems of Richard Wilbur -- Wit, Wyt, and Modern Literary Predicaments: Margaret Edson's Wit (1999) and John Redford's The Play of Wyt and Science (1530).".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 181 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Literary wit.".
- catalog identifier "1558492739 (lib. cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "1558492747 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Literary wit.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amherst : University of Massachusetts,".
- catalog relation "Literary wit.".
- catalog subject "817.009 21".
- catalog subject "American literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American wit and humor History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "English literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English wit and humor History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "PS430 M48 2000".
- catalog subject "Wit and humor Philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "A Description of Literary Wit -- A Calendar and a Preface: Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar and Oscar Wilde's Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Witty Plays, Witty Poems: Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and Poems of Richard Wilbur -- Wit, Wyt, and Modern Literary Predicaments: Margaret Edson's Wit (1999) and John Redford's The Play of Wyt and Science (1530).".
- catalog title "Literary wit / Bruce Michelson.".
- catalog type "text".