Parody, Scriblerian Wit and the Rise of the Novel : Parodic Textuality from Pope to Sterne Hardback
by Przemysław Uscinski
Part of the Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture series
Hardback
Description
Parody was a crucial technique for the satirists and novelists associated with the Scriblerus Club.
The great eighteenth-century wits (Alexander Pope, John Gay, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne) often explored the limits of the ugly, the droll, the grotesque and the insane by mocking, distorting and deconstructing multiple discourses, genres, modes and methods of representation.
This book traces the continuity and difference in parodic textuality from Pope to Sterne.
It focuses on polyphony, intertextuality and deconstruction in parodic genres and examines the uses of parody in such texts as «The Beggar’s Opera», «The Dunciad», «Joseph Andrews» and «Tristram Shandy».
The book demonstrates how parody helped the modern novel to emerge as a critical and artistically self-conscious form.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:276 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG
- Publication Date:31/03/2017
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- ISBN:9783631681220
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:276 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG
- Publication Date:31/03/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9783631681220
