Comic Sense

The idea for this study came to me in the course of my reading of innova­ tive US-American! fiction of the last three decades. I observed that much of it is cast in the comic mode - or, more precisely, that there seems to be in contemporary fiction an affinity between ''innovation'' and ''the comic'' and that this affinity, furthermore, appears to be characteristic of postmo­ dernism. It is obviou...