Flann O'Brien, Bakhtin, and Menippean Satire by Booker, M. Keith

Flann O'Brien, Bakhtin, and Menippean Satire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815626657)

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Flann O'Brien, Bakhtin, and Menippean Satire by Booker, M. Keith

Flann O'Brien, Bakhtin, and Menippean Satire

$39.95
Flann O'Brien, Bakhtin, and Menippean Satire by Booker, M. Keith

Flann O'Brien, Bakhtin, and Menippean Satire

$39.95
Format: Hardcover
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This work applies Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of literary discourse and the concept of carnivalisation to the work of Flann O'Brien. The author emphasizes the political and social implications of the writings, arguing that O'Brien maintained a reflexive focus on language throughout his career.



Author: M. Keith Booker
ISBN-10: 0815626657
ISBN-13: 9780815626657
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1995
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.24w x 0.62d
By M. Keith Booker
By M. Keith Booker
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M. Keith Booker is an associate professor of English at the University of Arkansas. He has been published extensively in literary journals in this country and abroad, and he is the author of several books including: Techniques of Subversion in Modern Literature: Transgression, Abjection, and the Carnivalesque, Literature and Domination: Sex, Knowledge, and Power in Modern Fiction, Vargas Llosa among the Postmodernists, and The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature: Fiction as Social Criticism.

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