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The Ends of Satire : Legacies of Satire in Postwar German Writing /

"How are we to think of satire if it has ceased to exist as a discrete genre? This study proposes a novel solution, understanding the satiric in the postwar era as a set of writing practices: figures of inversion, myth-making, and citation. By showing how writers and theorists alike deploy thes...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bowles, Daniel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
Colección:Paradigms ; 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Satire around 1800: Jean Paul
  • Prolegomena
  • The case of Jean Paul: unreadable writing, unwritable readings 16
  • Part One: Inversion
  • The carnivalesque in Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais and his World (1965)
  • Perspective and repetition in Thomas Bernhard's Woodcutters (1984)
  • Destructive negativity: Thomas Bernhard and Extinction (1986)
  • Part Two: Mythification
  • Between theory and literature: Roland Barthes' Mythologies (1957)
  • Elfriede Jelinek's Mythic Lust (1989)
  • Viennese paradigms in Elfriede Jelinek's The Piano Teacher (1983)
  • Part Three: Citation
  • From stage to page: Judith Butler and Gender Trouble (1990)
  • Performing theory in literature: Thomas Meinecke's Tomboy (1998)
  • Infinite Paradise of the Infinite Text: Thomas Meinecke's Music (2004)
  • Conclusion: Satire after Satire.