The Resource Politics and history in William Golding : the world turned upside down, Paul Crawford
Politics and history in William Golding : the world turned upside down, Paul Crawford
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- Summary
- "Politics and History in William Golding provides a much needed politicized and historicized reading of William Golding{u2019}s novels as a counter to previous, universalizing criticism. Paul Crawford argues that an understanding of fantastic and carnivalesque modes in Golding{u2019}s work is vital if we are to appreciate fully his interrogation of twentieth-century life. Golding{u2019}s early satirical novels question English constructions of national identity in opposition to Nazism and the 2totalitarian personality.3 For Crawford, Golding can and must be studied in the wider European tradition of 2literature of atrocity.3 His early novels, especially Lord of the Flies, are preoccupied with atrocity, whereas the later work betrays a greater concern for the status of language and literature. In Golding{u2019}s later fiction, such as Darkness Visible, the fantastic and carnivalesque are used in an increasingly nonsatirical manner to complement first modernist and then postmodernist self-consciousness and indeterminacy. Even his critique of class and religious authority, which carries through all of his fiction, gives way to more lighthearted productions{u2014}a symptom of which is his crude, absurd attack against the English literary industry in The Paper Men. This reduction of satire marks a decline in Golding{u2019}s political commitment and the production of more complex and arguably less satisfying novels. The fantastic and carnivalesque are foundational to both the satirical and nonsatirical approaches that mark Golding{u2019}s early and late fiction. No previous study has analyzed this structure that is so central to his work. Politics and History in William Golding examines this writer{u2019}s work more fully than it has been studied within the convoluted context of the last half of the twentieth century. Crawford directly links Golding{u2019}s various deployments of the fantastic and carnivalesque to historical, political, and social change."--Publishers website
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Politics and history in William Golding : the world turned upside down
- Title
- Politics and history in William Golding
- Title remainder
- the world turned upside down
- Statement of responsibility
- Paul Crawford
- Subject
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- Golding, William, 1911-1993 -- Knowledge | History
- Golding, William, 1911-1993 -- Political and social views
- Historical fiction, English -- History and criticism
- History
- Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Political fiction, English -- History and criticism
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Politics and History in William Golding provides a much needed politicized and historicized reading of William Golding{u2019}s novels as a counter to previous, universalizing criticism. Paul Crawford argues that an understanding of fantastic and carnivalesque modes in Golding{u2019}s work is vital if we are to appreciate fully his interrogation of twentieth-century life. Golding{u2019}s early satirical novels question English constructions of national identity in opposition to Nazism and the 2totalitarian personality.3 For Crawford, Golding can and must be studied in the wider European tradition of 2literature of atrocity.3 His early novels, especially Lord of the Flies, are preoccupied with atrocity, whereas the later work betrays a greater concern for the status of language and literature. In Golding{u2019}s later fiction, such as Darkness Visible, the fantastic and carnivalesque are used in an increasingly nonsatirical manner to complement first modernist and then postmodernist self-consciousness and indeterminacy. Even his critique of class and religious authority, which carries through all of his fiction, gives way to more lighthearted productions{u2014}a symptom of which is his crude, absurd attack against the English literary industry in The Paper Men. This reduction of satire marks a decline in Golding{u2019}s political commitment and the production of more complex and arguably less satisfying novels. The fantastic and carnivalesque are foundational to both the satirical and nonsatirical approaches that mark Golding{u2019}s early and late fiction. No previous study has analyzed this structure that is so central to his work. Politics and History in William Golding examines this writer{u2019}s work more fully than it has been studied within the convoluted context of the last half of the twentieth century. Crawford directly links Golding{u2019}s various deployments of the fantastic and carnivalesque to historical, political, and social change."--Publishers website
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1963-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Crawford, Paul
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR6013.O35
- LC item number
- Z5968 2002
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- University of Missouri Press
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- Literature and history
- Historical fiction, English
- Political fiction, English
- Politics and literature
- Golding, William
- Golding, William
- Label
- Politics and history in William Golding : the world turned upside down, Paul Crawford
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 50519077
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 261 pages
- Isbn
- 9780826214164
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2002027108
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- Politics and history in William Golding : the world turned upside down, Paul Crawford
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 50519077
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 261 pages
- Isbn
- 9780826214164
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2002027108
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
Subject
- Golding, William, 1911-1993 -- Knowledge | History
- Golding, William, 1911-1993 -- Political and social views
- Historical fiction, English -- History and criticism
- History
- Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Political fiction, English -- History and criticism
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