Dark humor and social satire in the modern British novel (Record no. 85486)
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| fixed length control field | 01906nam a2200385Ia 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 823/.9109355 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Colletta, Lisa. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Dark humor and social satire in the modern British novel |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New York : |
| Name of publisher | Palgrave Macmillan, |
| Year of publication | 2003. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 154 p. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction: Modernism and Dark Humor -- 1. Comedy Theory, the Social Novel, and Freud -- 2. Criticizing the Social System: Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's Dark Comedy of Manners -- 3. The Dark Domestic Vision of Ivy Compton-Burnett: A House and Its Head -- 4. The Too, Too Bogus World: Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies -- 5. Astolpho Meets Sisyphus: Melancholy and Repetition in Anthony Powell's Afternoon Men. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | English fiction |
| Topical Term | Humorous stories, English |
| Topical Term | Literature and society |
| Topical Term | Satire, English |
| Topical Term | Modernism (Literature) |
| Topical Term | Social problems in literature. |
| Topical Term | Black humor. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10135466 |
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