Starting with Caxton in 1477 Frank Muir shows how humorous writing has developed and refined through five centuries by such practitioners and innovators as Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne, and also how humour ranges from the crude to the subtle. It includes extracts from 215 different authors and anonymous pieces and there is a representation of American, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand prose as well as from Britain. The extracts quoted vary in length from a single paragraph to a complete story and there is a connecting text which introduces and sets the pieces in context. Framk Muir has written The Frank Muir Book .
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-13
9780192141064
eBay Product ID (ePID)
86548683
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose: from William Caxton to P.G.Wodehouse-A Conducted Tour
Author
Frank Muir
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Literary Theory
Publication Year
1990
Genre
Humor
Number of Pages
1197 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
1503g
Additional Product Features
Editor
Frank Muir
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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