Modernism, Satire and the Novel
Through satire, modernist literature cultivated sophisticated, ironic and cruel attitudes towards suffering which dramatically changed our understanding of emotion.
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- Full title :Modernism, Satire and the Novel.
Summary
Through satire, modernist literature cultivated sophisticated, ironic and cruel attitudes towards suffering which dramatically changed our understanding of emotion.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (240 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780511844065, 0511844069, 9781139161473, 1139161474, 9781139157650, 1139157655, 9781139157650, 1139155903, 9781139155908
- oclc:ocn763159279
- LC Classification:PN56 .M54 G75 2011
- Dewey Decimal:809.39112
Table of Contents
Cover; MODERNISM, SATIRE, AND THE NOVEL; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; THE UNCLE FESTER PRINCIPLE; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Satire and its discontents; THE DOUBLE MOVEMENT OF SATIRE; SATIRE, MODERNITY, AND THE GROTESQUE; RETHINKING MODERNIST ANTISENTIMENTALITY; FEELINGS OF SUSPICION; Chapter 2 Modernism's story of feeling; FORMS OF IDIFFERENCE: WILDE AND BEERBOHM; FORMS OF AGGRESSION: POUND AND LEWIS; SATIRE EMERGENT: JOYCE AND HUXLEY; LATE MODERNISM; Chapter 3 The rule of outrage: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies; WAUGH'S "PURGATORIO"; ALL THE TERRORS OF THE PSEUDO.
EVERYONE IS A BOMB: ESPIONAGE, ANARCHY, MODERNISMChapter 4 Laughter and fear in A Handful of Dust; THE DEATH OF PEPPERMINT; PHANTASY WITH A PH; Chapter 5 Cold Comfort Farm and mental life; SOME PERVERSIONS OF PASTORAL; GORGEOUS EMOTIONAL WALLOWINGS; TOLERABLE COMFORT; Chapter 6 Nathanael West and the mystery of feeling; THE TERRIBLE SINCERE STRUGGLE; THE SUN IS A JOKE; THE BOOK OF THE GROTESQUE; THE REFUSE OF FEELING; Chapter 7 Nightwood and the ends of satire; GREAT DEFAMING SENTENCES; WE GO UP -- BUT WE COME DOWN; REMEMBER LADY MACBETH; SECOND-HAND DEALINGS WITH LIFE.
Chapter 8 Beckett's authoritar…
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