Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: William Gerhardie affirms that humour “is the most serious quality in literature” (cit. in Craig 1989: 100) and Walter E. O’Connell that “life is still too important to be taken seriously” (1996: 317). The former is a novelist and the latter a psychologist, but both undermine the notion that seriousness or tragedy is the
Source: Estudios Irlandeses
DOI: 10.24162/ei2012-1796
Author: Aída Díaz-Bild
Institution: Universidad de La Laguna
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W307140782