Dark humor and social satire in the modern British novel
| Основен автор: | Colletta, Lisa. |
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| Автор-организации: | ebrary, Inc. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2003.
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Съдържание:
- Introduction: Modernism and Dark Humor
- 1. Comedy Theory, the Social Novel, and Freud
- 2. Criticizing the Social System: Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's Dark Comedy of Manners
- 3. The Dark Domestic Vision of Ivy Compton-Burnett: A House and Its Head
- 4. The Too, Too Bogus World: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies
- 5. Astolpho Meets Sisyphus: Melancholy and Repetition in Anthony Powell's Afternoon Men.