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

by Lisa Colletta

Book Overview

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, and asks probing questions about the relationship between a dark humour that 'revels in the non-rational, the unstable, and the fragmented, and resists easy definition and political usefulness' and the historical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403963657
• ISBN13: 9781403963659
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.5"