Author: Ernest Jackson HallPublisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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The Satirical Element in the American Novel
Author: Ernest Jackson HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Satire Or Evasion?
Author: James S. LeonardPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822311744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Ranging from the laudatory to the openly hostile, 15 essays by prominent African American scholars and critics examine the novel's racist elements and assess the degree to which Twain's ironies succeed or fail to turn those elements into a satirical attack on racism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Reinterpretation of American Literature
Author: Norman FoersterPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Writings on American History
Author: Bellweather Rhapsody
Author: Kate RacculiaPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544129911
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
A young music prodigy goes missing from a hotel room that was the site of an infamous murder-suicide fifteen years earlier, renewing trauma for a bridesmaid who witnessed the first crime and rallying an eccentric cast of characters during a snowstorm that traps everyone on the grounds.
Politics, Satire, and Historical Consciousness in Contemporary American Novel
Author: Olena BoyluPublisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
ISBN: 3832555560
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
What is the role of the historical and political novel in our lives? Is it just a story from the past, or does it shape our historical consciousness? Can we rely on the information within this type of fiction? According to many historicists, we cannot. However, we can also question numerous ideologically shaped history books that look more like fiction than scientific sources. Hence, historically and politically loaded fiction has an equal chance in the formational process of our historical consciousness. Besides, through satire and humor, which a scientist omits in a history book, a novelist manages to affect its reader on a different scale and leave a deeper trace. As E.,L. Doctorow once stated, ``The historian tells you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.'' Hence, this study analyzes several significant concepts such as historiography, historical consciousness, power, its elements, and the way it operates; traces major characteristics of historical and political fiction, and determines the role of satire within them. Eventually, through the analysis of several prominent contemporary novels, it provides vivid examples of all the concepts that have been discussed.
Common Ground
Author: Judith FrankPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804741897
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The author reads four 18th-century satiric novels—Joseph Andrews, A Sentimental Journey, Humphrey Clinker, and Cecilia—"from below," exploring how the gentle authors' experiences of the poor shape the novels both thematically and formally.
African American Satire
Author: Darryl Dickson-CarrPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826263747
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
"Satire's real purpose as a literary genre is to criticize through humor, irony, caricature, and parody, and ultimately to defy the status quo. In African American Satire, Darryl Dickson-Carr provides the first book-length study of African-American satire and the vital role it has played. In the process he investigates African American literature, American literature, and the history of satire." --Book Jacket.
The Columbia History of the American Novel
Author: Emory ElliottPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231073608
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Designed as a companion to The Columbia Literary History of the United States, this compilation of 31 major essays covers the American novel from the 1700s to the present, although the majority deal with the 20th century. Within each era, themes, genres, and topics such as realism, gender, romance, and technology are discussed in depth, as well as modern Canadian, Caribbean, and Latin American fiction. Each essayist selects only the authors who best illustrate the topic, thus subtly skewing the view of the literary scene at that time. The volume also covers women, minorities, popular fiction, and the book marketplace. ISBN 0-231-07360-7: $59.95.
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