The Comedy of Entropy: Humour/Narrative/Reading
ISBN: 9781487586072
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Comic The in literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism;

Entropic comedy is the phrase coined by Patrick O'Neill in this study to identify a particular mode of twentieth-century narrative that is not generally recognized. He describes it as the narrative expression of forms of decentred humour, or what might more loosely be called 'black humour.'

O'Neill Patrick :

Patrick O'Neill is a professor emeritus in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Queen's University.


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