Dark Humour and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel (häftad)

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Format: Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 184
Utgivningsdatum: 2003-11-01
Förlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Illustrationer: Black & white illustrations
Dimensioner: 208 x 146 x 17 mm
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Antal komponenter: 1
Komponenter: 19:B&W 5 x 8 in or 203 x 127 mm Case Laminate on White w/Gloss Lam
ISBN: 9781403963659

Dark Humour and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel

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Author: Lisa Colletta
ISBN: 9781403963659

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Lisa Colletta makes the argument that probing deeply into the nature of humour or satire that define social comedies brings to light a more complex and more accurate understanding of the social changes and historical circumstances that define the modern era.

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LISA COLLETTA is lecturer at Boston University. She's currently editing a collection of Christopher Isherwood's letters.

Comic theory, the social novel and Freud; criticizing the social system - Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's dark comedy of manners; the dark domestic vision of Ivy Compton Burnett - a house and its head; the too, too bogus world - Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies; Astolpho Meets Sisyphus - melancholy and repetition in Anthony Powell's Afternoon Men.