Humors, Neuroses, and Falling in Love in Julian Barnes’s Talking It Over and Love, etc.

Considering the characters in Julian Barnes’s novel sequence “Talking It Over” and “Love, etc.” from the perspective of comic drama invites us to notice that they are controlled by “humors,” and that comedy often arises from their mechanical inelasticity. It is not primarily the grip of market and p...

The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review

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