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Dark Humour and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel - Triumph of Narcissism (Hardcover, 2003 Ed.) Loot Price: R1,440
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Dark Humour and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel - Triumph of Narcissism (Hardcover, 2003 Ed.): Lisa Colletta

Dark Humour and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel - Triumph of Narcissism (Hardcover, 2003 Ed.)

Lisa Colletta

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Literary modernism traditionally focuses on the writings of self-consciously avant-garde writers who attempted to break with literary and aesthetic forms inherited from the nineteenth-century. This view of Modernism has overlooked much of the social comedy of the period, assessing it as satiric and therefore conservative, reinforcing the very cultural values it sets out to critique. Examining the work of Virginia Woolf, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Evelyn Waugh, and Anthony Powell in light of psychoanalytic theories of joke-work and gallows humor, Colletta claims that dark humor is an important characteristic of Modernism.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2003
First published: October 2003
Authors: Lisa Colletta
Dimensions: 222 x 141 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Edition: 2003 Ed.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-6365-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN: 1-4039-6365-7
Barcode: 9781403963659

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