Satirizing modernism : aesthetic autonomy, romanticism, and the avant-garde /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stinson, Emmett (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, [2017]
Subjects:	Modernism (Literature) Experimental fiction > History and criticism. Satire > History and criticism. Autonomy in literature. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Fiction > Technique.

Table of 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.