Jesting in earnest :Percival Everett and Menippean satire
- 作者: Maus, Derek C.,
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- 稽核項: 1 online resource (185 pages).
- 標題: Satire, American. , Satire, American , Écrivains noirs américains , Satire , Biographies. , Satire, American History and criticism. , Criticism and interpretation. , American literature Classical influences. , Littérature américaine Influence ancienne. , Classical influences. , Everett, Percival Criticism and interpretation. , Écrivains noirs américains Biographies. , Littérature américaine , African American authors. , History and criticism. , African American authors , Everett, Percival , LITERARY CRITICISM American -- General. , Criticism, interpretation, etc. , LITERARY CRITICISM , Influence ancienne. , Satire Classical influences. , AmericanGeneral. , American literature , Satire Influence ancienne. , African American authors Biography. , Everett, Percival.
- ISBN: 1611179637 , 9781611179637
- ISBN: 9781611179620
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references and index. An overview of Everett's life and career -- Everett and Menippean satire -- Five exemplary Menippean satires -- Menippean satire through tonal multiplicity -- The Menippean west -- Conclusion : a post-soul (but not post-racial) postscript.
- 摘要: "When writing about Percival Everett, it has become customary to begin with a caveat that the conspicuous variety within his body of work will inherently frustrate any attempts at definitive classification. This selection of texts spans nearly the full length of Everett's career as a writer and includes his most popular works as well as some of his more obscure ones. It is intended as a sampling of the whole, not a ranked list; one should not infer from the emphasis on these fourteen works that Everett's remaining sixteen books are necessarily of lesser significance or lesser quality"--
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A critical analysis of Percival Everett's oeuvre through the lens of Menippean satire Percival Everett, a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California, is the author of more than thirty books on a wide variety of subjects and genres. Among his many honors are the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, the Huston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction, the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction, and the Dos Passos Prize in Literature. Derek C. Maus proposes that the best way to analyze Everett's varied oeuvre is within the framework of Menippean satire, which focuses its ridicule on faulty modes of thinking, especially the kinds of willful ignorance and bad faith that are used to justify corruption, violence, and bigotry. In Jesting in Earnest, Maus critically examines fourteen of Everett's novels and several of his shorter works through the lens of Menippean satire, focusing on how it supports Everett's broader aim of stimulating thoughtful interpretation that is unfettered by common assumptions and preconceived notions.
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