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Cheeky Fictions
Editions Rodopi 2005; US$ 91.00Humour is a key feature, laughter a central element, disrespect a vital textual strategy of postcolonial transcultural practice. Devices such as irony, parody, and subversion, can be subsumed under an interventionist stance and have accordingly received some critical attention. But literary and cultural postcolonial criticism has been marked by a restraint... more...
42: Douglas Adams' Amazingly Accurate Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
Beautiful Books 2011; US$ 8.99The perfect smartly funny companion read to the Hitchiker's Guide: In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, author Douglas Adams famously proposed that the answer to the question What is the meaning of Life? was the number 42. Why that number? Over the years, many theories have been put forward, but Adams steadfastly refused to clarify. It... more...
Sense and Nonsensibility
Touchstone 2007; Not AvailableTwo widely published humor columnists and "bad boys" of academia take their wit and wisdom to dazzling new lows in this irreverent send-up of highbrow literary culture. At last, the thinking person's take on the life of the mind in today's increasingly mindless age. Sense and Nonsensibility pokes fun at everyone from spoof-proof scholars to... more...
Sense and Nonsensibility
Touchstone 2007; Not AvailableTwo widely published humor columnists and "bad boys" of academia take their wit and wisdom to dazzling new lows in this irreverent send-up of highbrow literary culture. At last, the thinking person's take on the life of the mind in today's increasingly mindless age. Sense and Nonsensibility pokes fun at everyone from spoof-proof scholars to... more...
Life, End of
Carcanet 2012; US$ 21.80She is eighty. Facing death, she considers her experiments with narrative, and with the narrative of her life. What is the purpose of the narrative she is creating here, and what the purpose of the life that lives it in the writing? At the centre of Life, End of, in a mock-technical lecture from the Character to the Author, she comes to accept that... more...
After Aesop
Hamilton Books 2010; US$ 37.99This book adds parodies Aesop, perhaps the world's best-known author, produced hundreds of fables that have been re-told countless times, on a one-to-one basis. By turns hilarious, poignant, and profound, the more than 200 entries in After Aesop will instruct and entertain a diverse modern audience. more...
A Curious Invitation
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 12.99A Curious Invitation by Suzette Field has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. more...
Little House of Oxymorons
Hamilton Books 2010; US$ 20.99This volume features well over 200 fresh and original oxymorons with commentaries-all with a satirical twist. As a satire, Little House of Oxymorons complements Steven Carter's The New Devil's Dictionary, a two-volume 'sequel' to Ambrose Bierce's notorious The Devil's Dictionary of a century ago. more...
Calvinist Humor in American Literature
LSU Press 2007; US$ 29.95Though the phrase "Calvinist humor" may seem to be an oxymoron, Michael Dunne, in highly original and unfailingly interesting readings of major American fiction writers, uncovers and traces two recurrent strands of Calvinist humor descending from Puritan times far into the twentieth century. Calvinist doctrine views mankind as fallen, apt to engage... more...
British Satire and the Politics of Style, 17891832
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 40.00Survey of satirical poems and prose narratives of the Romantic period, with bibliographical details. more...









