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John Coates

Kipling the Trickster

Knowingness, Practical Jokes and the Use of Superior Knowledge in Kipling's Short Stories

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This book is an exploration of the way in which the characters in Rudyard Kipling's short stories use superior knowledge, which often involves deception and the playing of practical jokes. There was early critical hostility to the stance adopted by Kipling's characters, that of a superior knowledge acquired by friendship with a small male circle. This book engages with a long-standing critical tradition which treats the jokes as acts of vicarious revenge or symptoms of supposed defects in Kipling's personality, instead setting his use of the practical joke in the wider social context of his time. In this book Kipling's writing is examined for… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-80079-341-5
  • EAN: 9781800793415
  • Produktnummer: 36769263
  • Verlag: Peter Lang
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 292 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.5 cm 427 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 427

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