TY  - BOOK
AU  - Przemysław Uściński
PY  - 2017
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2364-2882
SN  - 9783653072587
TI  - Parody, Scriblerian Wit and the Rise of the Novel
T2  - Parodic Textuality from Pope to Sterne
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-07258-7
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050793
N2  - Parody was a crucial technique for the satirists and novelists associated with the Scriblerus Club. The great eighteenth-century wits (Alexander Pope, John Gay, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne) often explored the limits of the ugly, the droll, the grotesque and the insane by mocking, distorting and deconstructing multiple discourses, genres, modes and methods of representation. This book traces the continuity and difference in parodic textuality from Pope to Sterne. It focuses on polyphony, intertextuality and deconstruction in parodic genres and examines the uses of parody in such texts as «The Beggar’s Opera», «The Dunciad», «Joseph Andrews» and «Tristram Shandy». The book demonstrates how parody helped the modern novel to emerge as a critical and artistically self-conscious form.
KW  - Satire, Polyphony, The Enlightenment, The English novel, Pastoral, Metafiction
LA  - English
ER  -