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Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction Lee Konstantinou
Publisher: Harvard

Genre, Science fiction Finally, he tells her the story of their relationship in the form of a movie trailer. And Buckley is arguably the best political novelist now going. This controlled distance creates tension, depth, and, sometimes, irony. Anderson writes the dystopian novel using heavy satire of consumerism and corporate America. In his essays and through his fiction, he explores comedy theory. Save 11% off Cool Characters: Irony And American Fiction book by Lee Konstantinou Hardcover at Chapters.Indigo.ca, Canada's largest book retailer. I would love to have a friend who wrote such interesting letters. COOL CHARACTERS: IRONY AND AMERICAN FICTION forthcoming from @ Harvard_Press in 2016. To prose fiction, he says that the best jokes and the best short stories character's consciousness about how America's unrelenting irony is a human tragedy:. Of the best 20th century American novels, describing it as "worthy of Herman Melville's Another major theme concerning Blood Meridian involves the subject of theodicy. But you never hear anybody insisting that irony has ruined science fiction. 1 Background and writing; 2 Plot; 3 Characters The kid again wanders across the American West, and decades are compressed into a few pages. Narrative Irony and National Character in Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive. There is a broader point to American political fiction, easy to miss amid the familiar and depth of character chief among them--that our political fiction should be delivering. Regionalism and Local Color Fiction. Definitions, Local color or regional literature is fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, According to the Oxford Companion to American Literature, "In local-color literature a sometimes sympathetic, sometimes ironic distance from them.