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Notes and Commentaries

Volume 03, Number 2 (1978)

Incongruity and Nostalgia in Sarah Binks

  • Gerald A. Noonan
Submitted
May 22, 2008
Published
1978-06-06

Abstract

In Paul Hiebert's Sarah Binks, incongruity between what is real and what is perceived or fancied is sustained at all levels, thus maintaining throughout the contrast necessary for humour. Noonan extends the concept of incongruity to apply to the general states of mind of Sarah, the fictional "Author," Hiebert, and the reader.