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a. Robert COOfJer

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"The Last Quixote. Marginal Notes on the Gospel According to Samuel Beckett." New Ame-rican Review 11. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971:132-43.

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Index

Adorno, Theodor W., XIII, 52, 54, 72, 87f., 130f., 163, 170; "1st die Kunst heiter?", 4-7, 25, 28, 30, 38, 44, 62, 93, 168, 169; "Riickblickend auf den Surrealismus", 55f.,152f.

Althusser, Louis, 72 American Graffiti, 48 Apple, Max, 138n., 176, 177 Artaud, Antonin, 130 Bailey, Peter, 145, 153n., 158, 159n. Bakhtin, Mikhail, 34 Barthelme, Donald, 176, 177 Barthes, Roland, 85n., 127, 129 Baudelaire, Charles, 34 Beckett, Samuel, 7, 35, 38-42 (plays), 43, 45,

169 Bellow, Saul, 142, 150, 170 Belsey, Catherine, 121n., 122 Benjamin, Walter, 121, 153n. Berger, Thomas, 176 Bergson, Henri (Le Rire), 5, 14-19,20,24,25-

28, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 99, 103, 147, 168

Bildungsroman, 136,139,165 black humour, 33,35 n., 132n., 182 Blair Walter, 122 Breton, Andre, 35, 94n., 129n. Bufiuel, Luis, 49n. Camus, Albert, 141n. Carroll, Lewis, 55, 129 Carter, Angela (Nights at the Circus), 178-82 Chaplin, Charlie (character), 47-52, 63, 44,

65,67,81 Cohen, Sarah B., XI Colbert, Robert, 145 Collins, Jim, XIII commedia dell'arte, 45 Coover, Robert, "The Babysitter", 65, 175;

"Charlie in the House of Rue", 46, 47-52, 53,56,61,63,64, 65, 69, 70, 78, 81, 179, Gerald's Party, 46, 80, 174f.; Gloomy Gus, 13-19, 24, 25, 61, 65f., 163, 168; "The Hat Act", 46, 52-54, 58, 61, 71; "Intermission", 57f., 61, 65, 68; A Night at the Movies, 67-48, 54, 55, The Origin of the Brunists, 79, "Panel Game", 44-47,

52,57,58,79,80,81,140, 172, 173, 174, 177, 182; "A Pedestrian Accident", 45, 46, 59; A Political Fable, 53, 61, 56, 71; The Public Burning, 13,46,59-77, 78,79, 80, 81, 140, 172, 173, 174, 177, 182; "Shootout at Gentry's Junction", 46; Spanking the Maid, 174n.; "Top Hat", 173f., "You Must Remember This", 47, 173f.

Cope, Jackson, 62 crisis response, 39,41,81 DeLillo, Don, 177 Disney World, 138-40, 160-62 The Divine Comedy (Dante), 19,20,23,24 Doctorov, E. L., 65n Eagleton, Terry, 98n., 120 n. Eliot T. S., 74, 164 Elkin, Stanley, A Bad Man, 133-36, 144,154-

56; "The Bailbondsman", 141; Boswell, 134, 136n., 164; The Dick Gibson Show, 142, 148-51, 152f., 154, 156-58; The Franchiser, 136-38, 139, 142-48, 152f., 155f., 158-60, 163, 171; George Mills, 20; The Living End, 19-24, 25, 131£, 133, 134,164,168,171,172; The Magic King­dom, 136,138-40, 160-62, 163, 171, 172; The MacGuffin, 162; "A Poetic for Bul­lies", 22, 127-33, 135,140,141,142,162, 164,170,171; The Rabbi of Lud, 162

Farrell, James T., 14 Faulkner, William, 36, 129, 142 Frank, Anne (character), 88f., 105 Franklin, Benjamin, 145 Freud, Sigmund, 55, 85, 124; Der Witz, 5, 8-

13,15,24,25-28,31,168 Gaddis, William, 62,178 Gass William, 84n. Goethe, J. W., 55n., 134, 136 Gordon, Lois, 73f. Greiner, Donald, 35-47, 38 Grotowski, J erzy, 130 Habermas, Jiirgen, XIII happen, (effect of the comic), 41, 42, 47,118,

140,165, 169, 172, 173, 175 Hawkes, John, 36,170 Heiterkeit, 6, 7, 30, 31, 34, 37, 180 Heller, Joseph, 178 heterogenism, 30-37, 38,39,81,125,132,169,

170, 180, 182 Hill, Hamlin, 3

194

Hoffmann, Gerhard, XIII, 35n homogenism, 26-30, 31,32,33,34,37,38,51,

81, 12~132,169,170,181 homunculus, 134-36,164 Horkheimer, Max, 15,25 Howe, Irving, 92f. humane humour rule, (E. Toth), 27, 37,176,

182 Hutcheon, Linda,30,38,6 incongruity-theory, 3-4,28-30,32,39,41 Iser, Wolfgang, (Die Artistik des Misslin-

gens), 38-42,47,54,80,89,167, 169 James, Henry, 83, 84, 86-88, 97, 98-100,101,

104f., 120, 121 Jean Paul, 111 Jewish joke, 8, 124f., 179 (see also Schad-

chen) Kafka, Franz, 35, 44n. Kant, Immanuel, 28f. Karl, Frederick, XIf. Kierkegaard, Soren,31-32,33, 34,38 Kunstlererzahlung, 14, 18, 19, 83, 86 Kunstler-Roman, 84, 87, 95, 100, 104, 107,

11~121,122,123,12~16~ 171 LeClair, Thomas, XIII, 61, 62, 66, 163, 177f. Mann, Thomas, 83, 84, 97,110,112,121 Marquard, ado, 29, 39, 51 Marx Brothers, The, 70 Marx, Karl, 147 McCaffery, Larry, 52, 73f., 175n. McFadden, George, 28, 30,33, 34, 48n. McHale, Brian, XIII Meredith, George (An Essay on Comedy), 5,

20-28,31,33,35,36,37,168 metacomic, 4, 18, 19,24 Mickey Mouse, 139 Miller, Arthur, 60 Moi, Tori!, 182 Morreal, John, 29 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 31, 32-34, 38,130 Nixon, Richard, (character), 14, 59, 62-77,

69,72,73,75 Ozick, Cynthia, 182 Paley, Grace, 176, 182 parody, 25, 30, 38, 51, 78f., 128 Pynchon, Thomas, 176, 178 Rabelais, Fran,>ois, 111 Rahv, Philip, 1-4, 168 redface, 1-4,25,29,38,42,90, 165f., 167, 168,

169, 172, Coover as r., 47, 67, 175; Roth

Comic Sense

as r., 1, 124, 170, 173, Elkin as r., 132, 140; Carter as r., 178, 182

Reed, Ishmael, 183 relief-from-restraint-theory, 3f., 168 Robinson, Fred M., 35-37, 38 Roth, Philip, The Anatomy Lesson, 84, 90,

91-05,97,101,104-19,117,129,173; The Counterlife, 84,86,91,104,110-18,119, 124,125,172,173; Deception, 114n.; The Facts, 84, 123f, 172, The Ghost Writer, 84, 85-89, 90, 104f., 118, 120; Goodbye Columbus, 93; "On the Air", 8-13, 25, 27,29,71,101,102, 168; Portnoy's Com­plaint, 8,83,85,89,92,93,104,114,122, 124f, 170, 179; The Prague Orgy, 84,85, 95-97,98,104,106,108,112,114; Rea­ding Myself and Others, If., 83, 95, 97; Zuckerman Unbound, 84, 90f, 93, 100-04, 105,110, 114

Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius (characters), 59f., 61, 63, 66-70, 73, 74, 75, 76, 79, 81

Rubin, Louis, 2-3, 71 Rushdie, Salman, 114n. Salinger, J.D., 129 Schadchen, 8-4 Schiller, Friedrich, 6, 30, 31, 34, 35, 37, 38,

121 Scholes, Robert, XI Schulz, Max, XI Shakespearean fools 19 Simpson, Mona, 182 Sontag, Susan, 106n. Sterne, Laurence, 111, 134n. Stevick, Philip, 75, 178f., Stevens Wallace, 36 superiority-theory, 3f., 20, 23, 24, 28, 32, 59,

71,99,168 Sypher, Wylie, 31, 32, 33, 37, 38 Tan, Amy, 183 tilting phenomenon, 39, 40, 41, 46, 48, 89,

132,168 Trachtenberg, Stanley, 121f. Turner, Victor, 75f. Twain, Mark, 129 Vonnegut, Kurt, 37n. Walker, Alice, 183 Watergate, 75 Weber, Max, 145 Wellmer, Albrecht, XIII White, Hayden, 60

Whitman, Walt, 145 Wilde, Alan, XIII, 24, 164f., 176 Wills, Gary, 62n. Wordsworth, William, 159

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