Keywords:
Golding, William,, 1911-, Knowledge, History.
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Golding, William,, 1911-, Political and social views.
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Historical fiction, English, History and criticism.
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Literature and history, Great Britain, History, 20th century.
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Political fiction, English, History and criticism.
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Politics and literature, Great Britain, History, 20th century.
Notes:
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
Pages:
261 p.
ISBN:
0-8262-6304-6
URL:
http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=113930
