TY  - BOOK
AU  - Juan Francisco Elices Agudo
PY  - 2021
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Satiric Worlds of William Boyd
T2  - A Case Study
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1100556
N2  - This study explores five major narratives of Ghanian-born novelist William Boyd from a satiric point of view. Boyd’s novels and short stories take up some of the particular traits of satire, a genre which has gradually lost the impact it had in the eighteenth century. This book analyses the satiric spirit of four novels and one short story: A Good Man in Africa, An Ice-Cream War, Stars and Bars, Armadillo and «The Destiny of Nathalie ‘X’». It looks at the way Boyd approaches crucial events in twentieth-century history and how he unmasks the follies that underlay most of them. It also deals with issues such as the effects of British colonialism in Africa, the superficiality of Hollywood’s film industry and the shortcomings of modern urban civilisation. The theoretical framework of this study is based on the analysis of recent satire criticism.
KW  - English Contemporary Literature, American Literature, English Literature, Boyd, William (Schriftsteller), Satirische Prosa, English Language, American Language, Literary Critisism, Literary Theory
LA  - English
ER  -