SOURCE: "American Folk Laughter in Robert Coover's 'The Public Burning'," in Contemporary Literature, Vol. 28, No. 2, Summer, 1987, pp. 239-56.
In the following essay, Estes examines Robert Coover's use of folk styles, particularly an unsentimental type of humor, in The Public Burning.
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