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Politics and history in William Golding : the world turned upside down
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- Creator
- Paul Crawford
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- 261 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0826263046, 9780826214164, 9780826263049, 0826214169
- OCLC
- ocn298842184, ocm50519077, ocm56424989
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index.
- Introduction: 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
Subjects
- Golding, William, 1911-1993 -- Political and social views.
- Golding, William, 1911-1993 -- Knowledge -- History.
- Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
- Literature and history -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
- Historical fiction, English -- History and criticism.
- Political fiction, English -- History and criticism.