Satiric Modernism (Clemson University Press w/ LUP) - Brossura

Rulo, Kevin

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ISBN 10: 1638041768 ISBN 13: 9781638041764

Casa editrice: Liverpool University Press, 2025

Riassunto

In this book, Kevin Rulo reveals the crucial linkages between satire and modernism. He shows how satire enables modernist authors to evaluate modernity critically and to explore their
ambivalence about the modern. Through provocative new readings of familiar texts and
the introduction of largely unknown works, Satiric Modernism exposes a larger satiric mentality at work in well-known authors like T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, and Ralph Ellison and in less studied figures like G.S. Street, the Sitwells, J.J.
Adams, and Herbert Read, as well as in the literature of migration of Sam Selvon and John Agard, in the films of Paolo Sorrentino, and in the drama of Sarah Kane. In so doing, Rulo remaps the last hundred years as an era marked distinctively by a new kind of satiric critique of and aesthetic engagement with the temporal fissures, logics, and regimes of modernity. This ambitious,
expansive study reshapes our understanding of modernist literary history and will be of interest to scholars of twentieth century and contemporary literature as well as of satire.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Liverpool University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1638041768
• ISBN 13: 9781638041764
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile