Now widely used as a generic term for everything that appeals to man`s disposition toward comic laughter. 2īefore we continue our discussion about whether Lewis could be considered primarily a humorist or a satirist, let us first consult Shipley`s Dictionary of World Literary Terms which provides a general definition of the term “humor”:įirst applied to the subject of laughter in the 18th century to distinguish the genial and affirmative forms of comic writing, then greatly in vogue, from satire, mockery and ridicule. 1 The scholar confirms his view by pointing to the fact that the relationship between Carol and Will in Main Street and between father and son in Babbitt end in a conciliatory spirit and that the happy ending is a “convention in a comic novel”. Austin tentatively suggests in an essay entitled “Sinclair Lewis and Western Humor” that the novelist “was a humorist first and a satirist only secondarily”.
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