Modernism, satire, and the novel

Modernism, satire, and the novel / Jonathan Greenberg.

"In this groundbreaking study, Jonathan Greenberg locates a satiric sensibility at the heart of the modern. By promoting an antisentimental education, modernism denied the authority of emotion to guarantee moral and literary value. Instead, it fostered sophisticated, detached and apparently cru...

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Main Author: Greenberg, Jonathan Daniel, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature)
Satire > History and criticism.
Emotions in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: the Uncle Fester principle; 1. Satire and its discontents; 2. Modernism's story of feeling; 3. The rule of outrage: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies; 4. Laughter and fear in A Handful of Dust; 5. Cold Comfort Farm and mental life; 6. Nathanael West and the mystery of feeling; 7. Nightwood and the ends of satire; 8. Beckett's authoritarian personalities.

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