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C.J. Hribal: Comic and Cosmic Distance (July 2007)

$5.00

What can comedy do that drama can’t?  In this lecture, C.J. Hribal explores what comic distance can convey about the human condition; he focuses on how three novellas—The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol, Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov, and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka—modulate narrative distance to evoke comedy and tragedy simultaneously; in doing so, Hribal suggests, they allow the reader to feel complex empathy for their characters. 

Category: Residency Craft Lectures Tag: Fiction
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Hribal, C.J

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