The Creation of the Comic and the Tragicomic through Suspense in the Works of William Faulkner
The Creation of the Comic and the Tragicomic through Suspense in the Works of William Faulkner
Author(s): Lauri PilterSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus
Summary/Abstract: „For the wide public, William Faulkner has the reputation of being a writer of the macabre and the overcomplicated – accordingly he is seen as providing little room for the comic and the humorous. Experts of Faulkner have achieved a different opinion. For most of them, the writer appears not only as a master tragedian but also a supreme humorist, mingling the serious and the laughable in countless surprising proportions and combinations.”[…]
Journal: Interlitteraria
- Issue Year: XII/2007
- Issue No: 12
- Page Range: 125-141
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English