P. G. Wodehouse’s ‘Thoughtful Lightness’ and Detached Involvement: Satire, Parody and the Subversive Use of the Canonical Intertext in Code of the Woosters (1938)

P. G. Wodehouse has long been neglected, if not ostracised, by academia and critics, because of a persistent prejudice against light writing and reading. He was (re)discovered from 2000 onwards, a period corresponding to a new critical awareness that aesthetics and ideology cannot be understood in i...

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Main Author: Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2016-12-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/3425