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Dark Humour And Social Satire In The Modern British Novel - ENG

Triumph Of Narcissism

L. Colletta

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ISBN:	9781403981370
Formato:	Page Fidelity
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Springer Nature
Tema:	Ficción
Subtema:	Ficción
Año de publicación:	2003-09-30

Colletta uses psychoanalytic theories of joke-work and gallows humour to argue that dark humour is an important, defining characteristic of Modernism. She brings together the usual suspects alongside more often overlooked writers from the period, and asks probing questions about the relationship between a dark humour that revels in the non-rational, the unstable, and the fragmented, and resists easy definition and political usefulness and the historical and social circumstances of the period. Colletta makes a compelling argument that probing deeply into the nature of humour or satire that define these 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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