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Kipling the Trickster
Knowingness, Practical Jokes and the Use of Superior Knowledge in Kipling's Short Stories
Langbeschreibung
This book is an exploration of the way in which the characters in Rudyard Kipling's short stories use superior knowledge, which often involves deception and the playing of practical jokes. There was early critical hostility to the stance adopted by Kipling's characters, that of a superior knowledge acquired by friendship with a small male circle. This book engages with a long-standing critical tradition which treats the jokes as acts of vicarious revenge or symptoms of supposed defects in Kipling's personality, instead setting his use of the practical joke in the wider social context of his time.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents: Knowingness, Practical Jokes and the Use of Superior Knowledge in Kipling's Short Stories - Approaches to Kipling's Comic Writing - Kipling and Practical Jokes - «The God from the Machine» - «Private Learoyd's Story» - «Thrown Away» - «A Bank Fraud» - «Lispeth» - «The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin» - «Watches of the Night» - «Three and - an Extra» - «My Sunday at Home» - The Imminent Peril and Narrow Escape of the Knowing Narrator - The Knowing Narrator: «On the City Wall» - «The Village that Voted the Earth Was Flat» - «Dayspring Mishandled».
John Coates, MA (Jesus College, Cambridge), PhD (Exeter), spent two years in the US teaching in colleges and in the UK lectured at the University of Hull until his retirement. He was an acknowledged expert on G. K. Chesterton, having written two books (1983, 2002) and numerous articles on him and given papers at international conferences. His main area of scholarship was late Victorian and Edwardian literature, as his books on Walter Pater (2011) and Rudyard Kipling (1997) affirm, but he had the ability to treat skilfully and sensitively an astonishing range of different writers. His book on Elizabeth Bowen (1998) is an example of this. He published more than a hundred papers in journals such as Shakespeare Survey and Comparative Literature. He died suddenly in January 2020, leaving the manuscript of this book.
ISBN-13:
9781800793446
Veröffentl:
2021
Seiten:
282
Autor:
John Coates
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
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