In this book, Kevin Rulo reveals the crucial linkages between satire and modernism. He shows how satire enables modernist authors to evaluate modernity critically and to explore their
ambivalence about the modern. Through provocative new readings of familiar texts and
the introduction of largely unknown works, Satiric Modernism exposes a larger satiric mentality at work in well-known authors like T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, and Ralph Ellison and in less studied figures like G.S. Street, the Sitwells, J.J.
Adams, and Herbert Read, as well as in the literature of migration of Sam Selvon and John Agard, in the films of Paolo Sorrentino, and in the drama of Sarah Kane. In so doing, Rulo remaps the last hundred years as an era marked distinctively by a new kind of satiric critique of and aesthetic engagement with the temporal fissures, logics, and regimes of modernity. This ambitious,
expansive study reshapes our understanding of modernist literary history and will be of interest to scholars of twentieth century and contemporary literature as well as of satire.
| ISBN: | 9781949979893 |
| Publication date: | 19th April 2021 |
| Author: | Kevin Rulo |
| Publisher: | Clemson University Press an imprint of Clemson University Press w/ LUP |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Series: | Clemson University Press W/ LUP |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
In this book, Kevin Rulo reveals the crucial linkages between satire and modernism. He shows how satire enables modernist authors to evaluate modernity critically and to explore their
ambivalence about the modern. Through provocative new readings of familiar texts and
the introduction of largely unknown works, Satiric Modernism exposes a larger satiric mentality at work in well-known authors like T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, and Ralph Ellison and in less studied figures like G.S. Street, the Sitwells, J.J.
Adams, and Herbert Read, as well as in the literature of migration of Sam Selvon and John Agard, in the films of Paolo Sorrentino, and in the drama of Sarah Kane. In so doing, Rulo remaps the last hundred years as an era marked distinctively by a new kind of satiric critique of and aesthetic engagement with the temporal fissures, logics, and regimes of modernity. This ambitious,
expansive study reshapes our understanding of modernist literary history and will be of interest to scholars of twentieth century and contemporary literature as well as of satire.
Satiric Modernism features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Satiric Modernism is available in Hardback
Satiric Modernism was written by Kevin Rulo and published by Clemson University Press an imprint of Clemson University Press w/ LUP
Satiric Modernism has 288 pages
Yes it is part of Clemson University Press W/ LUP series