Title: Satirizing modernism : aesthetic autonomy, romanticism, and the avant-garde /
Authors: Stinson, Emmett,
Year: 2017
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Experimental fiction History and criticism.; Satire History and criticism; Autonomy in literature.; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Fiction Technique; Autonomy in literature.; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Experimental fiction; Fiction Technique; Modernism (Literature); Satire
Contents: Introduction: Autonomy, satire, romanticism, avant-garde -- The romantic satire of romanticism: Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey -- Modernism against itself: Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God -- Exhausting modernism: satire, sublimity and late modernism in William Gaddis's The Recognitions -- Aporia and the satiric imagination: the limit-modernism of Gilbert Sorrentino's Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things -- Conclusion: Satire and radical apophasis in evan Dara's The Easy Chain.