Stephen Leacock : humour and humanity / Gerald Lynch.

By:

Lynch, Gerald, 1953- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Spadoni, Carl [donor.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780773561670
0773561676
9786612851117
6612851112

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Stephen Leacock.DDC classification:

C818/.5209 19

LOC classification:

PR9199.3.L367 Z76 1988eb

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 The Middle Way: An Introduction to Leacock's Tory-Humanist Norm -- 2 Between Satire and Sentimentality: Leacock's Theory of Humour -- 3 Sunshine Sketches: Mariposa Versus Mr Smith -- 4 Religion and Romance in Mariposa -- En Voiture! -- 5 Arcadian Adventures: The City of the End of Things -- 6 Between a Vault and a Dark Place: Religion and Politics in Plutoria -- 7 Humour and Humanity -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O

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Summary: From the preface: "Stephen Leacock is still often regarded as a writer of lightweight amusements and unchallenging satire, as an author without an imaginative centre who lacked a vision of sufficient power and clarity to sustain a lifetime of serious writing. According to this view, which has been too easily received, Leacock squandered an early, promising talent (though he was in fact, middle-aged when he published Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town in 1912), and consequently his writings, like his legendary Lord Ronald, "rode madly off in all directions." After years of chasing down Leacock's numerous literary mounts, I can assert that none of this is true. Leacock's writing emerges from a centre that is the confluence of the two traditions of humanism and toryism, traditions that found in Leacock fertile ground for the propagation of such qualities as tolerance of human fallibility and acceptance of social responsibility. What is remarkable with respect to Leacock's literary output is that even his furthest-flung, seemingly inconsequential humourous pieces move in relation to this tory-humanist centre." Lynch invites us to accompany him on an odyssey through Leacock's two main works, Sunshine Sketches and Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich . He aspires to enlighten the open-minded reader, and is highly successful in doing so." Elspeth Cameron, Coordinator of Canadian Literature and Language Program, New College, University of Toronto.

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From the preface: "Stephen Leacock is still often regarded as a writer of lightweight amusements and unchallenging satire, as an author without an imaginative centre who lacked a vision of sufficient power and clarity to sustain a lifetime of serious writing. According to this view, which has been too easily received, Leacock squandered an early, promising talent (though he was in fact, middle-aged when he published Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town in 1912), and consequently his writings, like his legendary Lord Ronald, "rode madly off in all directions." After years of chasing down Leacock's numerous literary mounts, I can assert that none of this is true. Leacock's writing emerges from a centre that is the confluence of the two traditions of humanism and toryism, traditions that found in Leacock fertile ground for the propagation of such qualities as tolerance of human fallibility and acceptance of social responsibility. What is remarkable with respect to Leacock's literary output is that even his furthest-flung, seemingly inconsequential humourous pieces move in relation to this tory-humanist centre." Lynch invites us to accompany him on an odyssey through Leacock's two main works, Sunshine Sketches and Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich . He aspires to enlighten the open-minded reader, and is highly successful in doing so." Elspeth Cameron, Coordinator of Canadian Literature and Language Program, New College, University of Toronto.

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