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100 1 $aCrawford, Paul,$d1963-
245 10 $aPolitics and history in William Golding :$bthe world turned upside down /$cPaul Crawford.
260 $aColumbia :$bUniversity of Missouri Press,$cc2002.
300 $a261 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-254) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: the world turned upside down -- Menippean satire, the fantastic, and the carnivalesque -- Literature of atrocity: Lord of the flies and The inheritors -- Self-consciousness and the totalitarian personality: Pincher Martin and Free fall -- Constructions of fiction and class: The spire and The pyramid -- Postmodernity and postmodernism: Darkness visible and The paper men -- Historiographic metafiction, preromanticism, and the ship of fools: To the ends of the earth: a sea trilogy -- Conclusion: socialist subversions? The radical and reactionary in Golding's satire.
520 1 $a"Politics and History in William Golding provides a much needed politicized and historicized reading of William Golding's novels as a counter to previous, universalizing criticism. Paul Crawford argues that an understanding of fantastic and carnivalesque modes in Golding's work is vital if we are to appreciate fully his interrogation of twentieth-century life." "The fantastic and carnivalesque are foundational to both the satirical and nonsatirical approaches that mark Golding'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'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's various deployments of the fantastic and carnivalesque to historical, political, and social change."--Jacket.
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650 0 $aHistorical fiction, English$xHistory and criticism.
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