Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel by Lisa Colletta
Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel

Lisa Colletta

Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel

Lisa Colletta

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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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