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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin/Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Paradigms ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 these devices in new contexts, this book reexamines the link between German postwar writing and the history of satire, and between literature and theory."-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 231 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110359534 3110359537 9783110386844 3110386844 |