| Parody, Scriblerian Wit and the Rise of the Novel: Parodic Textuality from Pope to Sterne Contributor(s): Wilczynski, Marek (Other), Uściński, Przemyslaw (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631681224 ISBN-13: 9783631681220 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $81.43 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | European - German - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 820.900 |
| LCCN: 2016051004 |
| Series: Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.3" (1.00 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Parody was a crucial technique for the satirists and novelists associated with the Scriblerus Club. The great eighteenth-century wits (Alexander Pope, John Gay, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne) often explored the limits of the ugly, the droll, the grotesque and the insane by mocking, distorting and deconstructing multiple discourses, genres, modes and methods of representation. This book traces the continuity and difference in parodic textuality from Pope to Sterne. It focuses on polyphony, intertextuality and deconstruction in parodic genres and examines the uses of parody in such texts as The Beggar's Opera , The Dunciad , Joseph Andrews and Tristram Shandy . The book demonstrates how parody helped the modern novel to emerge as a critical and artistically self-conscious form. |
