Discussion Topics
How do the themes of economics and political science unify Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town?
What is the role of the narrator in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town?
What are some examples of wordplay in Leacock’s work?
What is meant by a short-story cycle?
What comic devices does Leacock use in his story “My Financial Career”?
Discussion Topics
Examine the device of self-deprecating humor in Stephen Leacock’s work. How does he keep readers from taking this self-deprecation too seriously?
What is the difference between Leacock’s parody and burlesque?
Contrast the use of nonsense in Leacock’s Literary Lapses and the Alice books of Lewis Carroll, which Leacock admired.
Why should gentle humor, like that in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, infuriate the people of the town on which it is based?
Why has Leacock’s reputation declined, while those of Carroll and Mark Twain have not?
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