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1、MODERNISM,SATIRE,ANDTHENOVELInthisgroundbreakingstudy,JonathanGreenberglocatesasatiricsensibilityattheheartofthemodern.Bypromotinganantisenti-mentaleducation,modernismdeniedtheauthorityofemotiontoguaranteemoralandliteraryvalue.Instead,itfosteredsophisticated,detached,andapparentlycruelattitud
2、estowardpainandsuffering.Thissensibilitychallengedthenovel’shumanistictradition,setethicsandaestheticsintoconflict,andfundamentallyalteredthewaysthatweknowandfeel.ThroughlivelyandoriginalreadingsofworksbyEvelynWaugh,StellaGibbons,NathanaelWest,DjunaBarnes,SamuelBeckett,andothers,thisbookanaly
3、zesabodyofliterature–latemodernistsatire–thatcanappearbyturnsaloof,sadistic,hilarious,ironic,andpoignant,butwhichcontinuallyquestionsinheritedmodesoffeel-ing.Byrecognizingthecentralityofsatiretomodernistaesthetics,Greenbergoffersnotonlyanewchapterinthehistoryofsatirebutapersuasivenewideaofwha
4、tmademodernismmodern.jonathangreenbergisAssociateProfessorofEnglishatMontclairStateUniversity.Hehaspublishedessaysonnumeroustwentieth-centurywritersincludingChinuaAchebe,SalmanRushdie,EvelynWaugh,NathanaelWest,andIanMcEwan.Acomedicwriterhimself,hehasalsowonanEmmyAwardforhiswritingforchildren’
5、stelevision.MODERNISM,SATIRE,ANDTHENOVELJONATHANGREENBERGAssociateProfessor,MontclairStateUniversitycambridgeuniversitypressCambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi,Tokyo,MexicoCityCambridgeUniversityPressTheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb28ru,UKPublishedintheUnited
6、StatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYorkwww.cambridge.orgInformationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107008496#JonathanGreenberg2011Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexceptionandtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewi
7、thoutthewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress.Firstpublished2011PrintedintheUnitedKingdomattheUniversityPress,CambridgeAcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibraryLibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataGreen