Dark Humour and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel: Triumph of Narcissism by L. Colletta

Dark Humour and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel: Triumph of Narcissism

L. Colletta

154 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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Colletta uses psychoanalytic theories of joke-work and gallows humour to argue that dark humour is an important, defining characteristic of Modernism. She brings together the usual suspects alongside more often overlooked writers from the period, ...

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