‘A Satire at Once Savage and Toothless’: The Politics and Aesthetics of Satire in Will Self’s Works
While most traditional definitions of satire underline the indebtedness of the genre to a doxa or to an established social norm that it must expose and deride so that the opposite virtues can be implicitly extolled and ultimately reinforced, Will Self’s satire prompts a revaluation of the very frame...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/3399 |