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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Main Author: Bowles, Daniel James, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
Series:Paradigms-- Literature and the human sciences ; volume 2
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505 0 |a 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. 
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