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By Jonathan Greenberg

during this groundbreaking learn, Jonathan Greenberg locates a satiric sensibility on the center of the trendy. by way of selling an antisentimental schooling, modernism denied the authority of emotion to assure ethical and literary worth. as a substitute, it fostered refined, indifferent and it sounds as if merciless attitudes towards discomfort and ache. This sensibility challenged the novel's humanistic culture, set ethics and aesthetics into clash and essentially altered the ways in which we all know and think. via full of life and unique readings of works by means of Evelyn Waugh, Stella Gibbons, Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Samuel Beckett and others, this e-book analyzes a physique of literature - past due modernist satire - which can seem by means of turns aloof, sadistic, hilarious, ironic and poignant, yet which consistently questions inherited modes of feeling. through spotting the centrality of satire to modernist aesthetics, Greenberg deals not just a brand new bankruptcy within the heritage of satire yet a persuasive new notion of what made modernism modern.

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