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Modernism, Satire and the Novel (Hardcover, New)
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Modernism, Satire and the Novel (Hardcover, New)
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In this groundbreaking study, Jonathan Greenberg locates a satiric
sensibility at the heart of the modern. By promoting an
antisentimental education, modernism denied the authority of
emotion to guarantee moral and literary value. Instead, it fostered
sophisticated, detached and apparently cruel attitudes toward pain
and suffering. This sensibility challenged the novel's humanistic
tradition, set ethics and aesthetics into conflict and
fundamentally altered the ways that we know and feel. Through
lively and original readings of works by Evelyn Waugh, Stella
Gibbons, Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Samuel Beckett and others,
this book analyzes a body of literature - late modernist satire -
that can appear by turns aloof, sadistic, hilarious, ironic and
poignant, but which continually questions inherited modes of
feeling. By recognizing the centrality of satire to modernist
aesthetics, Greenberg offers not only a new chapter in the history
of satire but a persuasive new idea of what made modernism modern.
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