Dark humor and social satire in the modern British novel [electronic resource] / by Lisa Colletta.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.Description: 154 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823/.9109355 22
LOC classification:
  • PR888.H85 C65 2003eb
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Contents:
Introduction: Modernism and Dark Humor -- 1. Comedy Theory, the Social Novel, and Freud -- 2. Criticizing the Social System: Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's Dark Comedy of Manners -- 3. The Dark Domestic Vision of Ivy Compton-Burnett: A House and Its Head -- 4. The Too, Too Bogus World: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies -- 5. Astolpho Meets Sisyphus: Melancholy and Repetition in Anthony Powell's Afternoon Men.
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Introduction: Modernism and Dark Humor -- 1. Comedy Theory, the Social Novel, and Freud -- 2. Criticizing the Social System: Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's Dark Comedy of Manners -- 3. The Dark Domestic Vision of Ivy Compton-Burnett: A House and Its Head -- 4. The Too, Too Bogus World: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies -- 5. Astolpho Meets Sisyphus: Melancholy and Repetition in Anthony Powell's Afternoon Men.

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