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Character and Satire in Post War Fiction: Continuum Literary Studies

Autor Dr Ian Gregson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2008
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 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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781847062659
ISBN-10: 1847062652
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Seria Continuum Literary Studies

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Highlights caricature as key narrative strategy in postwar fiction and links postmodern fiction with 18th and 19th century satirical tradition.

Cuprins

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 Puppets of Thwarted Authority
6. Magic Realism As Caricature: Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie
7. The Caricaturist as Celebrity: Martin Amis and Will Self
8. Caricature Verus Character: The Self as Cartoon
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

'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