Comic Prose

Jonathan Greenberg; David Galef

doi:10.1017/9781108939201.012

Comic Prose

Jonathan Greenberg
, David Galef

English

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Abstract

Comic prose has much in common with other genres and styles; timing and balance, for example, are integral to its effects. Jonathan Greenberg and David Galef offer an examination of many different techniques in comic writing that build upon and depart from familiar strategies, many of them relying on upending expectations. The chapter enumerates various techniques, including reversal, elaboration, soundplay, excess (and restraint) and parody.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Cambridge Companion to Prose
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	147-163
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9781108939201
ISBN (Print)	9781108837408
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108939201.012
State	Published - 1 Jan 2021

Keywords

Balance
Comedy
Disproportion
Excess
Parody
Rhetoric
Soundplay
Timing

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