Character and Satire in Post War Fiction (inbunden)

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Format: Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 192
Utgivningsdatum: 2006-01-01
Förlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Originalspråk: English
Illustrationer: black & white illustrations
Dimensioner: 242 x 162 x 17 mm
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Antal komponenter: 1
Komponenter: 52:B&W 6.14 x 9.21in or 234 x 156mm (Royal 8vo) Case Laminate on White w/Gloss Lam
ISBN: 9780826487476

Character and Satire in Post War Fiction

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Author: Dr Ian Gregson
ISBN: 9780826487476

Satirising the Self

av Dr Ian Gregson

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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 post-war novelists, 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 images depict the human as reduced to the status of an object, an animal or a machine, or the human body as dismembered to represent the fragmentation of the human spirit. Gregson argues that this return to caricature is symptomatic of a satirical attitude to the self which is particularly characteristic of contemporary culture.

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"Ian Gregson has compiled an interesting and eclectic mix of postwar fiction to subject to his critical focus on characterization and satire.... Gregson's choices achieve the purpose of demonstrating his thesis about the importance of caricature in Postmodernism..."- Mimi R. Gladstein, The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Vol. 61, No. 1/ Spring 2007 -- The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature

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Introduction; 1. Subverting Racist Caricature: Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison; 2. Joseph Heller's Allegories of Money; 3. Philip Roth's Vulgar Aggressive Clowning; 4. Joyce Carol Oates' Political Anger; 5. Muriel Spark's Heartless Fictions; 6. Magic Realism As Caricature: Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie; 7. The Caricaturist as Celebrity: Martin Amis and Will Self; 8. Caricature Versus Character: The Self as Cartoon in Post-war Fiction; Bibliography; Index.