seriocomic
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In a cultural landscape of darkly seriocomic prestige series like "Succession" and "The Bear," Rose Byrne is happy to just take a pratfall.
From Salon • Jun. 23, 2023
More of a recognition reel for a fan convention than a movie, it signals a career that’s traveled far from its first evocation of a raw seriocomic intelligence about small-to-bursting lives.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2022
Back in 2011, I reviewed Mat Johnson’s “Pym,” a wildly entertaining seriocomic novel that revisits — and updates — Edgar Allan Poe’s enigmatic, racially charged fantasy, “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2022
A former newspaper reporter, he started out writing arch thrillers before turning to seriocomic literary fiction such as 2006’s “The Zero” and 2009’s “The Financial Lives of the Poets.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2020
He never assumed this seriocomic tone when alone with Mrs. Pontellier.
From The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate
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