The Purloined Punch Line : Freud's comic theory and the postmodern text /

Flieger, Jerry Aline, 1947-

The Purloined Punch Line : Freud's comic theory and the postmodern text / Jerry Aline Flieger. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. - 291 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references : p. 271-279 and index.

0801840481 (alk. paper)


Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.


French literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--20th century
Postmodernism (Literature)--France.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Comic, The, in literature.
Desire in literature.