Politics and history in William Golding : the world turned upside down /
"Politics and History in William Golding provides a much needed politicized and historicized reading of William Golding's novels as a counter to previous, universalizing criticism. Paul Crawford argues that an understanding of fantastic and carnivalesque modes in Golding's work is vit...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
©2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the world turned upside down
- Menippean satire, the fantastic, and the carnivalesque
- Literature of atrocity: Lord of the flies and The inheritors
- Self-consciousness and the totalitarian personality: Pincher Martin and Free fall
- Constructions of fiction and class: The spire and The pyramid
- Postmodernity and postmodernism: Darkness visible and The paper men
- Historiographic metafiction, preromanticism, and the ship of fools: To the ends of the earth: a sea trilogy
- Conclusion: socialist subversions? The radical and reactionary in Golding's satire.