The Academic as Comedian: Humour in Michael Frayn’s The Trick of It
Michael Frayn’s comic novel The Trick of It (1989) explores the rela-tionship between academia and creative writing and the derivative, secondary nature of literary research. Through its main academic character and only narra-tor, Frayn’s text recurrently identifies the role of a scholar...
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Polish Association for the Study of English
2019-12-01
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Series: | Polish Journal of English Studies |
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Online Access: | http://pjes.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PJES_5-2_3_Isabel-Berzal-Ayuso.pdf |