01680cam a22002174a 4500 110301s2011 enka 000 0 eng 9781107008496 SDU PN56.M54 G798 M 2011 Greenberg, Jonathan Daniel, 210816 Modernism, satire, and the novel / Jonathan Greenberg. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. 220 p. : ill. HKBU Library "In this groundbreaking study, Jonathan Greenberg locates a satiric sensibility at the heart of the modern. By promoting an antisentimental education, modernism denied the authority of emotion to guarantee moral and literary value. Instead, it fostered sophisticated, detached and apparently cruel attitudes toward pain and suffering. This sensibility challenged the novel's humanistic tradition, set ethics and aesthetics into conflict and fundamentally altered the ways that we know and feel. Through lively and original readings of works by Evelyn Waugh, Stella Gibbons, Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Samuel Beckett and others, this book analyzes a body of literature - late modernist satire - that can appear by turns aloof, sadistic, hilarious, ironic and poignant, but which continually questions inherited modes of feeling. By recognizing the centrality of satire to modernist aesthetics, Greenberg offers not only a new chapter in the history of satire but a persuasive new idea of what made modernism modern"-- Modernism (Literature) Satire History and criticism. Emotions in literature. 208034 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 109356 109356 0 0 lcc 0 PN0056 M54 G798 M2011 0 CGB 279521 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-08-27 2 0 PN56.M54 G798 M 2011 1000374268 2025-08-27 00:00:00 C.1 2025-08-27 GBE