Off-canon Pleasures —— A Case Study And A Perspective

----- 离经叛道的快乐——个案研究与视角

ISBN: 9783941875951 出版年：2011 页码：135 Armin Paul Frank Universitätsverlag Gottingen

The inclusion of works in a canonical list creates a large body of exclusions. But among these neglected works there are not a few that nevertheless are worth reading. Literary worth is not necessarily aesthetic impeccability. A literary work recommends itself by a high degree of artistic achievement with elbowroom for historical importance. The present study focuses on Leo Rosten%’šj immigration novel The Education of Hyman Kaplan (1937) and Archibald MacLeish%’šj radio play Air Raid (1938). The first is more than the apparent compendium of language-based jokes. Read in the context of i