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Series Introduction by Harold Bloom: Themes and Metaphors xi
Volume Introduction Harold Bloom xv
The Plays of Aristophanes: "Aristophanes' Comic Apocalypse" Louise Cowan in The Terrain of Comedy (1984) 1
The Plays of Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd: "The Theatre of the Absurd" Martin Esslin in Theatre in the Twentieth Century (1956) 29
Catch-22 Joseph Heller: "Catch-22 and Angry Humor: A Study of the Normative Values of Satire" James Nagel in Studies in American Humor (1974) 47
Cat's Cradle Kurt Vonnegut: "Dark Humor in Car's Cradle" Blake Hobby 57
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess: "A Clockwork Orange and the Metaphysics of Slapstick" Matthew J. Bolton 67
On Dark Humor in Literature: "The Comedy of Entropy: The Contexts of Black Humour" Patrick O'Neill in Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (1983) 79
Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri): "Elements of Dark Humor in Dante's Divine Comedy" Lauren P. De La Vars 105
The Dumbwaiter (Harold Pinter): "When Farce Turns into Something Else: Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter" Scott Walters 115
The Stories of Nikolai Gogol and Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov): "Observations on Black Humor in Gogol and Nabokov" Woodin W. Rowe in The Slavic and East European Journal (1974) 127
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" (Flannery O'Connor): "Clich?s, Superficial Story-Telling, and the Dark Humor of Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find'" Robert C. Evans 139
Henry IV, Parts One and Two (William Shakespear): "The Rejection of Falstaff" A.C. Bradley in Oxford Lectures on Poetry (1909) 149
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (Thomas Steams Eliot): "Almost Ridiculous': Dark Humor in Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'" Robert C. Evans 171
A Modest Proposal (Jonathan Swift): "Wood's Halfpence" Leslie Stephen in Swift (1882) 181
The Mysterious Stranger (Mark Twain): "The Mysterious Stranger and '3,000 Years Among the Microbes': Chimerical Realities and Nightmarish Transformations" Patricia M. Mandia in Comedic Pathos: Black Humor in Twain's Fiction (1991) 197
Reservation Blues (Sherman Alexie): "The Saddest Joke: Sherman Alexie's Blues" James A. Crank 219
White Noise (Don DeLillo): "The Dark Humor of White Noise" Joseph Dewey 229
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Edward Albee): "Dark Humor in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Kate Falvey 241
"The Yellow Wallpaper" (Charlotte Perkins Gilman): "'Too Terribly Good to Be Printed': Charlotte Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'" Conrad Shumaker in American Literature (1985) 251
Acknowledgments 263
Index 265
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reviewed Bloom's Literary Themes: Dark Humor on November 16, 2016
Bloom's Literary Themes: Dark Humor
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