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Publication details [#67143]

Solomon, William. 2019. Crime, Comedy, and Late Modernism. Studies in American Humor 5 (2) : 309–329.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Penn State University Press

Annotation

This paper tracks a differentiating feature of late modernism, viz. the fascination on the part of comically inclined American writers with crime fiction. Beginning with a debate of the convergence of formal experimentation and parodic motifs in slapstick film, the paper distinguishes a comic impulse in the work of the major practitioners of the detective story.