Cannibals and Catholics
Reading the Reading of Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12917606 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Greenberg (0000-0002-4875-2207, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 115-137 |
| Publication date | 2006-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modernist Cultures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-8629 • E-ISSN: 2041-1022 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/e2041102209000239 |
| OpenAlex | W2068732328 |
| Language | EN |
Jonathan Greenberg (Montclair State University) explores satire's unstable dynamic of enjoyment and identification, one always threatening to careen out of the author's control. As an example of this instability, Greenberg offers the messy public debate in which Waugh attempted to defend himself from the Catholic press's charge that his novel “Black Mischief” was an immoral book, and Greenberg uses this debate as a point of departure to explore satire's dialectical nature: the structural inextricability of morality and sadistic pleasure, outrage and amusement, anger and blasé indifference
Amusement · Art · Literature · Outrage · Perversion · Pleasure · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process · Evelyn Waugh and Hans Urs von Balthasar Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Travel Writing and Literature
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |