Loupe
Search Loader

Derek C. Maus 
Jesting in Earnest 
Percival Everett and Menippean Satire

Support

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.

€0.00
méthodes de payement

A propos de l’auteur

Derek C. Maus, professor of English at the State University of New York at Potsdam, has authored or edited scholarly books on a range of subjects, including Russian and American satire during the Cold War, contemporary African American satire, Colson Whitehead, and Walter Mosley.
Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 192 ● ISBN 9781611179637 ● Taille du fichier 2.6 MB ● Maison d’édition University of South Carolina Press ● Lieu Columbia ● Pays US ● Publié 2019 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 6710745 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
Nécessite un lecteur de livre électronique compatible DRM

Plus d’ebooks du même auteur(s) / Éditeur

26 046 Ebooks dans cette catégorie