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Dark Humour and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel
L. Colletta
其他書名
Triumph of Narcissism
出版Springer, 2003-09-30
主題Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Modern / 20th CenturyFiction / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
ISBN140398137X9781403981370
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ge3IAAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.