Character and satire in post-war fiction:
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1. Verfasser: Gregson, Ian (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Continuum ©2006
Schriftenreihe:Continuum literary studies
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index
Subverting racist caricature: Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison -- Joseph Heller's allegories of money -- Philip Roth's vulgar, aggressive clowning -- Joyce Carol Oates's political anger -- Muriel Spark's puppets of thwarted authority -- Magic realism as caricature: Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie -- The caricaturist as celebrity: Martin Amis and Will Self -- Caricature versus character: the self as cartoon
This monograph analyses the use of caricature as one of the key strategies in narrative fiction since the war. Close analysis of some of the best known postwar novelists including Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Angela Carter and Will Self, reveals how they use caricature to express postmodern conceptions of the self. In the process of moving away from the modernist focus on subjectivity, postmodern characterisation has often drawn on a much older satirical tradition which includes Hogarth and Gillray in the visual arts, and Dryden, Pope, Swift and Dickens in literature. Its key
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ISBN:9781847142139
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