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[KINDLE] ✽ American Lit Relit By Richard Armour – Polishdarling.co.uk This book leads you irreverently and irresponsibly through the pages of American literature You may even learn something Richard Armour, that madcap and gown satirist, goes his merry way from such Pur This book leads you irreverently and irresponsibly through the pages of American literature You may even learn something Richard Armour, that madcap and gown satirist, goes his merry way from such Puritan authors as Michael Wigglesworth and Cotton Mather to such not so Puritan authors as O Neill, Hemingway, and Faulkner Sense and nonsense play a wild game of tag, having a field day in a field American Lit PDF \ often approached to solemnly The author gives his special kind of literate humor by combining word play, understatement, exaggeration, parody, free association, and irony The survey course in American literature will never be the same.
- Hardcover
- 160 pages
- American Lit Relit
- Richard Armour
- 05 January 2019 Richard Armour
- 0070022410
I love intelligent men who can be hilariously silly
Hilarious skewering of your American lit course in high school The point of the book is straight humor, as opposed to humorous education.
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Believe it or not I first encountered this book in 1970 I had just started college and was taking a course in Am Lit and decided I needed a break from the stuffy stuff I was reading I found the book hilarious I d already read the author s Twisted Tales from Shakespeare so I knew his humor Since it was published in 1970 we don t go much farther than Faulkner and Hemingway so bear that in mind if you read the book but let me tell you, the work is still very funny in the way only Richard Ar Believe it or not I first encountered this book in 1970 I had just started college and was taking a course in Am Lit and decided I needed a break from the stuffy stuff I was reading I found the book hilarious I d already read the author s Twisted Tales from Shakespeare so I knew his humor Since it was published in 1970 we don t go much farther than Faulkner and Hemingway so bear that in mind if you read the book but let me tell you, the work is still very funny in the way only Richard Armour can be and if you should ever be YouTubing, get a load of Armour s appearance on Groucho Marx s You Bet Your Life Armour manages to give Groucho a run for his money and Groucho looks decidedly perturbed