Forms and functions of black humor in the fiction of Evelyn Waugh.
The black humor novel is a distinctive form of contemporary satire which relies heavily upon parodic structure, verbal disjunctions and truncations, and flattened characterizations. While this literary form is usually considered to be an American phenomenon of the fifties and sixties, appearing when...
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| Online Access: | Link to ProQuest Copy Link to OAKTrust copy ProQuest, Abstract |