Character and satire in post-war fiction /
This monograph analyses the use of caricature as one of the key strategies in narrative fiction since the war. Close analysis of some of the best known postwar novelists including Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Angela Carter and Will Self, reveals how they use caricature to express p...
| Основен автор: | Gregson, Ian. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London ; New York :
Continuum,
℗♭2006.
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| Серия: |
Continuum literary studies.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=226938 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Character and satire in post-war fiction. |
| Резюме: |
This monograph analyses the use of caricature as one of the key strategies in narrative fiction since the war. Close analysis of some of the best known postwar novelists including Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Angela Carter and Will Self, reveals how they use caricature to express postmodern conceptions of the self. In the process of moving away from the modernist focus on subjectivity, postmodern characterisation has often drawn on a much older satirical tradition which includes Hogarth and Gillray in the visual arts, and Dryden, Pope, Swift and Dickens in literature. Its key. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (181 pages). |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781847142139 1847142133 |