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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles and private in-jokes whose art appeals primarily to an intellectually-sophisticated readership. This study presents a more balanced portrait, placing equal emphasis on the broader, earthier humour that is such a marked feature of Nabokov's writing, which draws on the human body and all things physical for its laughs: sex and scatology, farce and slapstick. Moving between the metaphysical and the physical, the cosmic and the comic, mind and matter, it presents Nabokov as a writer at home in both high and low forms of humour, a comedian who is capable of producing as many belly laughs as brainteasers, and of appealing to a much wider readership than is commonly supposed.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - [headline]The first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov's humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick, sexual and scatological humour Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles, private in-jokes and arcane allusions whose art appeals primarily to an intellectually-sophisticated readership. This study presents a more balanced portrait, placing equal emphasis on the exuberant, earthier humour that is such a marked feature of Nabokov's writing, a humour which draws on the human body and all things physical for its laughs: sex and scatology, farce and slapstick. Moving between the metaphysical and the physical, the cosmic and the comic, mind and matter, Grant presents Nabokov as a writer at home in both high and low forms of humour, a comedian who is capable of producing as many belly laughs as brainteasers, and can appeal to a much broader readership than is commonly supposed. [bio]Paul Benedict Grant is an Associate Professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. In addition to his many publications on Nabokov's humour, he has written on humour in the work of Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Connor and is co-editor of Carver Across the Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver (2011).

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing, 1st state with sterotyper's colophon on copyright page, 5 flat dots before "56" on page vi, broken "World" on page vii ; frontispiece ; 1 preliminary leaf, vii, [11]-286 pages frontispiece 20 cm ; textured blind-stamped green cloth with gold decorations & designs ; no dustjacket ; LC: PS2404; Dewey: 818 ; Ik. Marvel was the pseudonym of Donald Grant Mitchell ; BAL,; 13931; Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1851-1875,; 1721 ; OCLC: 947726521 ; a beautiful copy ; copy of N. B. Heath, historian of Company E, 355th infantry, AEF, 1918 ; Contents: With My Aunt Tabithty - With My Reader - DREAMS OF BOYHOOD - Spring - Rain In The Garret - School Dreams - Boy Sentiment - Friend Made & Friend Lost - Boy Religion - New England Squire - Country Church - Home Scene - DREAMS OF YOUTH - Summer - Cloister Life - First Ambition - College Romance - First Look At The World - Broken Home - Family Confidence - Good Wife - Broken Hope - DREAMS OF MANHOOD - Autumn - Pride Of Manliness - Man Of The World - Manly Hope - Manly Love - Cheer & Children - Dream Of Darkness - Peace - DREAMS OF AGE - Winter - What Is Gone - What Is Left - Grief & Joy Of Age - End Of Dream ; "12 years ago, this autumn, when I had finished the concluding chapters of this little book, I wrote a letter of Dedication to Washington Irving, & forwarding it by mail to Sunnyside, begged his permission to print it. I think I shall gratify a rational curiosity of my readers (however much they may condemn my vanity) if I give his reply in full: 'Mr Dear Sir, "Though I have a great disinclination in general to be the object of literary oblations and compliments, yet in the present instance, I have enjoyed your writings with such peculiar relish, & been so drawn toward the author by the qualities of head and heart evinced in them, that I confess I feel gratified by a dedication, over flattering as I may deem it, which may serve :it's an outward sign that we are cordially linked together in sympathies & friendship.Ever, my dear Sir, Yours, very truly, Washington Irving.'Nov,1851. I had been personally presented to Mr. Irving for the first time, only a year before, under the introduction of my good friend, Mr. Clark (the veteran Editor of the old Knickerbocker in its palmy days). Thereafter I had met him from time to time, and had paid a charming visit to his delightful home of Sunnyside. But it was after the date of the publication of this book, & during the summer of 1852, that I saw Mr. Irving more familiarly, & came to appreciate more fully that charming bonhomie, and geniality in his character, which we all recognize so constantly in his writings, & if I set down here a few recollections of that pleasant intercourse, they will, I am sure, more than make good the place of the old letter of Dedication, & will serve to keep alive the association 1 wish to cherish, between my little book & the name of the distinguished author who so kindly showed me his favor. I saw Mr. Irving afterward repeatedly in New York & passed two delightful days at Sunnyside. I can never forget a drive with him upon a crisp autumn morning through Sleepy Hollow, and all the notable localities of his neighborhood, in the course of which he kindly called my attention in the most unaffected & incidental way to those which had been specially illustrated by his pen & with a rare humor recounted to me some of his boyish adventures among the old Dutch farmers of this region. Most of all, it is impossible for me to forget the rare kindliness of his manner, his friendly suggestions, and the beaming expression of his eye. I met it last, at the little stile, from which I strolled away to the station at Deamian; and when I saw the kind face again, it was in the coffin, at the little church, where he attended service." ; a near FINE copy, with a very few marks, slight foxing, scarce important 19th century American popular fiction. [DANGER:Reported Univ. of Delaware: Poison Book! - Arsenic in cover]. Book.