Modernism, satire, and the novel / Jonathan Greenberg.
Modernism, satire, and the novel / Jonathan Greenberg.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Date
2011.
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N809.39112/2
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English
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p. cm.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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England
Date Published
2011.
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- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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"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 cruel attitudes toward pain and suffering. This sensibilit...
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Modernism, satire, and the novel / Jonathan Greenberg.
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Machine generated contents note: 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;...
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N809.39112/2
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74VvJL2G6pRb
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1107008492 (hardback)
9781107008496 (hardback)
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809.39112
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991008142289702626
