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Jonathan Greenberg
Researcher at Montclair State University
Publications - 12
Citations - 110
Jonathan Greenberg is an academic researcher from Montclair State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Literary criticism & Darwinism. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 12 publications receiving 101 citations.
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Why Can't Biologists Read Poetry? Ian McEwan's Enduring Love
TL;DR: A recent review of the prominent journal Critical Inquiry reveals that while Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud vie for position with Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault among the journal's most frequently footnoted thinkers, Darwin is, apparently, nowhere to be found.
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Modernism, Satire and the Novel
TL;DR: Greenberg as mentioned in this paper locates a satiric sensibility at the heart of the modern by promoting an antisentimental education, modernism denied the authority of emotion to guarantee moral and literary value Instead, it fostered sophisticated, detached and apparently cruel attitudes toward pain and suffering, which challenged the novel's humanistic tradition, set ethics and aesthetics into conflict and fundamentally altered the ways that we know and feel.
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Nathanael West and the Mystery of Feeling
TL;DR: Satire reemerges in modernism because it offers an escape from coercive identifications enacted through sentimentality as mentioned in this paper. But as seen in the fiction of Nathanael West, satire's rejection of sentiment runs significant risks, threatening to dismiss the acutely felt claims of a suffering public.
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The Cambridge Introduction to Satire
TL;DR: In satire, evil, folly, and weakness are held up to ridicule -to the delight of some and the outrage of others as discussed by the authors, and satire may claim the higher purpose of social critique or moral reform, or it may simply revel in its own transgressive laughter.
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“Was Anyone Hurt?”: The Ends of Satire in A Handful of Dust
TL;DR: Waugh's attitude toward modernism and modernity more generally was marked by a certain fruitful ambivalence as discussed by the authors, which is characteristic of Waugh's sensibility, the signal characteristic of his dark humor.