This is a yearbook sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association which promotes comparative literary studies.

Volume 10, dedicated to 'Comedy, Irony, Parody', celebrates the first decade of Comparative Criticism in a light-hearted vein. Michael Silk opens with a wide-ra

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