Through satire, modernist literature cultivated sophisticated, ironic and cruel attitudes towards suffering which dramatically changed our understanding of emotion.
Through satire, modernist literature cultivated sophisticated, ironic and cruel attitudes towards suffering which dramatically changed our understanding of emotion.
Jonathan Greenberg is Associate Professor of English at Montclair State University. He has published essays on numerous twentieth-century writers including Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Nathanael West and Ian McEwan. A comedic writer himself, he has also won an Emmy Award for his writing for children's television.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface: the Uncle Fester principle 1. Satire and its discontents 2. Modernism's story of feeling 3. The rule of outrage: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies 4. Laughter and fear in A Handful of Dust 5. Cold Comfort Farm and mental life 6. Nathanael West and the mystery of feeling 7. Nightwood and the ends of satire 8. Beckett's authoritarian personalities.
Preface: the Uncle Fester principle 1. Satire and its discontents 2. Modernism's story of feeling 3. The rule of outrage: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies 4. Laughter and fear in A Handful of Dust 5. Cold Comfort Farm and mental life 6. Nathanael West and the mystery of feeling 7. Nightwood and the ends of satire 8. Beckett's authoritarian personalities.
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