<b>Performance, humor, discourse of salvation and eternal return in the novel <i>Miss Lonelyhearts

This article aims at analyzing the relationship between fiction and salvific discourse in the novel Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), by Nathanael West, understanding this problematic narrative as a liberating performance of the humor classified as black, from which dogmatic contents are dissociated, with a...

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Published in:	Acta Scientiarum: Language and Culture
Main Authors:	Evaldo Gondim dos Santos, Ilza Matias de Sousa
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Universidade Estadual de Maringá 2015-04-01
Subjects:	black humor the myth of Dionysus redemptive metanarrative the Christ complex
Online Access:	http://186.233.154.254/ojs/index.php/ActaSciLangCult/article/view/24024

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