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Comedy, Metafiction, and Jonathan Coe

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation › Scientific

Description

In this presentation, I discuss how the combination of metafiction and humour in Jonathan Coe's work can show us good ways to deal with unpleasant real-life situations. Reading his works is an excellent excercise in being "excentric": taking an outside, distanced perspective on the world and on yourself, much like the novelist does with regard to the fictional world and the characters in it.
Period15 May 2025
Event titleTruth in Fiction: Philosophers in Conversation with Jonathan Coe
Event typeWorkshop
LocationTilburg, NetherlandsShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • metafiction
  • comedy
  • humour
  • literature
  • emotion