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UNINA990009599590403321 |
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Real and complex singularities : XI International Workshop on real and Complex and Complex Singularities, July 26-30, 2010, Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil / Victor Goryunov, Kevin Houston, Roberta Wik-Atique, editors |
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Providence : American Mathematical Society, 2012 |
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Contemporary mathematics ; 569 |
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Monografia |
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UNINA9910782993203321 |
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Gregson Ian |
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Character and Satire in Post War Fiction [[electronic resource]] |
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London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006 |
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1-282-02446-9 |
9786612024467 |
1-4411-3000-4 |
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1 online resource (190 p.) |
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Continuum Literary Studies |
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American fiction |
Caricature in literature |
Character in literature |
Electronic books |
English fiction |
Satire, American |
Satire, English |
World War, 1939-1945 |
English |
Languages & Literatures |
English Literature |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Subverting Racist Caricature: Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison; 2 Joseph Heller's Allegories of Money; 3 Philip Roth's Vulgar, Aggressive Clowning; 4 Joyce Carol Oates's Political Anger; 5 Muriel Spark's Puppets of Thwarted Authority; 6 Magic Realism As Caricature: Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie; 7 The Caricaturist As Celebrity: Martin Amis and Will Self; 8 Caricature Versus Character: The Self As Cartoon; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W |
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This monograph analyses the use of caricature as one of the key |
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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 |
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