Laughing with Lucifer: Satan Comedy in American Literature and Popular Culture

Laughing with Lucifer: Satan Comedy in American Literature and Popular Culture

210 pages· 2008· ISBN 9781109027785
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Interpreting these texts through the lens of critical works by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Paul Ricoeur, Arthur Koestler, and Northrop Frye, this dissertation concludes that "dealing with the devil," or more specifically, engaging in the comic mode of bisociative thinking, enables us to create and live within a global community characterized by convergent pluralism, rather than homogenization or confrontational parochialisms.

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