Fables of Subversion: Satire and the American Novel
Drawing on more than thirty novels by nineteen writers, Fables of Subversion is both a survey of mid-twentieth-century American fiction and a study of how these novels challenged the conventions of satire. Steven Weisenburger focuses on the rise of a radically subversive mode of satire from 1930 to 1980. This postmodern satire, says Weisenburger, stands in crucial opposition to corrective, normative satire, which has served a legitimizing function by generating, through ridicule, a consensus on values. Weisenburger argues that satire in this generative mode does not participate in the oppositional, subversive work of much twentieth-century ar…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8203-1668-0
- EAN: 9780820316680
- Produktnummer: 1653137
- Verlag: Univ Of Georgia Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.0 cm x D3.4 cm 726 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 726
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