Dark Humour and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel: Triumph of Narcissism

by Lisa Colletta

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1403963657

ISBN13:9781403963659

Release Date:November 2003

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:154 Pages

Weight:0.66 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.8" x 8.5"

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