01906nam a2200385Ia 4500 ebr10135466 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 030722s2003 nyu sb 000 0 eng d 2003053657 140398137X 1403963657 CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)560535986 PR888.H85 C65 2003eb 823/.9109355 22 Colletta, Lisa. Dark humor and social satire in the modern British novel [electronic resource] / by Lisa Colletta. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 154 p. Includes bibliographical references. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. English fiction 20th century History and criticism. Humorous stories, English History and criticism. Literature and society Great Britain History 20th century. Satire, English History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) Great Britain. Social problems in literature. Black humor. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10135466 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 85486 85486