Heroi-comic: Involving a combination of heroic and comic elements; specifically designating poetry or other literature which humorously imitates the heroic style, especially in dealing with mundane or ridiculous subject matter.
Stream of consciousness: A person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow. The term was introduced by William James in his Principles of Psychology (1890).
A literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust are among its notable early exponents.
A stream-of-consciousness monologue
Serio-comic: Combining the serious and the comic; serious in intention but humorous in manner or vice versa.
‘a telling serio-comic critique’
Tragicomic: (of a play or novel) containing elements of both comedy and tragedy.
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