Transgressive Fiction: The New Satiric Tradition

by R. Mookerjee

Overview

Often dismissed as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire and the Rabelaisian carnal folk sensibility praised by Bakhtin. This study, the first of its kind, provides a thorough literary background and analysis of key transgressive authors such as Acker, Amis, Carter, Ellis, and Palahniuk.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349333189
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Edition description:	1st ed. 2013
Pages:	255
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robin Mookerjee is Co-Chair of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College, the New School for the Liberal Arts, USA. He has been a faculty member at Eugene Lang College since 2000, playing a key role in curriculum development. He is the author of Identity and Society in American Poetry (2008) and regularly publishes reviews, criticism, and poetry. His work explores the intellectual backgrounds of contemporary life, literature, and culture.

Table of Contents

1. Criminal Rehabilitation: Introduction 2. Enemies of the State: The Atavistic Mock Epic 3. Liminal Intent: Nabokov and Burroughs 4. A History of Violence: From Satire to Transgression 5. Sex Offenders: Stranger than Fiction 6. False Pretenses: The Antisocial Hero

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