Character and Satire in Post War FictionA&C Black, 13.01.2006 - 192 Seiten This monograph analyses the use of caricature as one of the key strategies in narrative fiction since the war. Close analysis of some of the best known postwar novelists including Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Angela Carter and Will Self, reveals how they use caricature to express postmodern conceptions of the self. In the process of moving away from the modernist focus on subjectivity, postmodern characterisation has often drawn on a much older satirical tradition which includes Hogarth and Gillray in the visual arts, and Dryden, Pope, Swift and Dickens in literature. Its key images depict the human as reduced to the status of an object, an animal or a machine, or the human body as dismembered to represent the fragmentation of the human spirit. Gregson argues that this return to caricature is symptomatic of a satirical attitude to the self which is particularly characteristic of contemporary culture. |
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2 Joseph Hellers Allegories of Money | 31 |
3 Philip Roths Vulgar Aggressive Clowning | 55 |
4 Joyce Carol Oatess Political Anger | 79 |
5 Muriel Sparks Puppets of Thwarted Authority | 99 |
Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie | 111 |
Martin Amis and Will Self | 131 |
The Self As Cartoon | 151 |
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Bibliography | 175 |
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