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- catalog abstract ""Social satire in the modern period is traditionally seen as a conservative genre in opposition to the experimental aesthetic of literary modernism. In Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel, Lisa Colletta challenges this prevailing view, arguing that the darkly humorous social satires of the interwar years in Britain display a deep ambivalence and a delight in disorder that denies the reader the comfort of a stable or totalizing critique. Combining analysis of canonical writers and those often overlooked - Virginia Woolf, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Evelyn Waugh, and Anthony Powell - Colletta draws on psychoanalytic theories of joke-work and gallows humor to make the claim that dark humor is a defining characteristic of Modernism. She deftly connects these writers through their humor and offers an innovative rereading of Modernist texts."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12999970.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Social satire in the modern period is traditionally seen as a conservative genre in opposition to the experimental aesthetic of literary modernism. In Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel, Lisa Colletta challenges this prevailing view, arguing that the darkly humorous social satires of the interwar years in Britain display a deep ambivalence and a delight in disorder that denies the reader the comfort of a stable or totalizing critique. Combining analysis of canonical writers and those often overlooked - Virginia Woolf, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Evelyn Waugh, and Anthony Powell - Colletta draws on psychoanalytic theories of joke-work and gallows humor to make the claim that dark humor is a defining characteristic of Modernism. She deftly connects these writers through their humor and offers an innovative rereading of Modernist texts."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-150) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Modernism and Dark Humor -- 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.".
- catalog extent "154 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1403963657".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Palgrave Macmillan,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "823/.9109355 22".
- catalog subject "Black humor.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Humorous stories, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society Great Britain History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "PR888.H85 C65 2003".
- catalog subject "Satire, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Social problems in literature.".
- catalog subject "Social satire, English History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Modernism and Dark Humor -- 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.".
- catalog title "Dark humor and social satire in the modern British novel / by Lisa Colletta.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".