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Parody, Scriblerian Wit and the Rise of the Novel: Parodic Textuality from Pope to Sterne

Parody, Scriblerian Wit and the Rise of the Novel: Parodic Textuality from Pope to Sterne

Uściński, Przemyslaw
Wilczynski, Marek

Hardcover

Series: Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture, Book 22

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3631681224
ISBN13: 9783631681220
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Mar 31 2017
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

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.

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