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Parody, Scriblerian Wit and the Rise of the Novel - Parodic Textuality from Pope to Sterne (Hardcover, New edition)
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Parody, Scriblerian Wit and the Rise of the Novel - Parodic Textuality from Pope to Sterne (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture, 22
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Parody was a crucial technique for the satirists and novelists
associated with the Scriblerus Club. The great eighteenth-century
wits (Alexander Pope, John Gay, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne)
often explored the limits of the ugly, the droll, the grotesque and
the insane by mocking, distorting and deconstructing multiple
discourses, genres, modes and methods of representation. This book
traces the continuity and difference in parodic textuality from
Pope to Sterne. It focuses on polyphony, intertextuality and
deconstruction in parodic genres and examines the uses of parody in
such texts as "The Beggar's Opera", "The Dunciad", "Joseph Andrews"
and "Tristram Shandy". The book demonstrates how parody helped the
modern novel to emerge as a critical and artistically
self-conscious form.
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