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‘A Satire at Once Savage and Toothless’: The Politics and Aesthetics of Satire in Will Self’s Works

La majorité des définitions traditionnelles de la satire soulignent la relation incontestable du genre à une norme sociale de référence que le satiriste s’applique à exposer et moquer, afin d’encourager par contraste les pratiques vertueuses inverses. Toutefois, la satire selfienne, multidirectionne...

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Tác giả chính:	Gonneaud, Justine
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Ngôn ngữ:	Français
Được phát hành:	Études britanniques contemporaines 2016
Những chủ đề:	satire Will Self Great Apes Cock and Bull menippea Dustin Griffin Mikhail Bakhtine satire menippéé
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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:ebc_3399 https://doi.org/10.4000/ebc.3399 urn:doi:10.4000/ebc.3399 fr https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/3399 2016-12-13T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/fe5g https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ‘A Satire at Once Savage and Toothless’: The Politics and Aesthetics of Satire in Will Self’s Works Études britanniques contemporaines Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2271-5444 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1168-4917 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc Gonneaud, Justine satire Will Self Great Apes Cock and Bull menippea Dustin Griffin Mikhail Bakhtine Will Self Great Apes Cock and Bull satire menippéé Dustin Griffin Mikhail Bakhtine La majorité des définitions traditionnelles de la satire soulignent la relation incontestable du genre à une norme sociale de référence que le satiriste s’applique à exposer et moquer, afin d’encourager par contraste les pratiques vertueuses inverses. Toutefois, la satire selfienne, multidirectionnelle de par ses cibles et contradictoire dans ses postulats moraux, suggère de reconsidérer ce cadre théorique. Cet article se propose d’étudier les différentes stratégies narratives qui sous-tendent le texte selfien et concourent à créer une forme satirique du jeu, de l’exhibition et de la provocation, telle que la définit Dustin Griffin, plus qu’une satire téléologique, visant à reformer un horizon moral et éthique. While most traditional definitions of satire underline the indebtedness of the genre to a doxa or to an established social norm that it must expose and deride so that the opposite virtues can be implicitly extolled and ultimately reinforced, Will Self’s satire prompts a revaluation of the very frame within which we understand it. This paper, based on selected fictions by Self, studies the narrative strategies producing a satirical form able to accommodate a perceived current lack of common moral ground. It first examines various satirical tropes, in order to show aspects of the ‘savage’ dimension of Self’s satirical prose. Secondly, working under the assumption that these topoi constitute a coping strategy to ‘manage the anomie of our society’, it demonstrates that the inherent ambivalence of a hence ‘toothless’ satire allows for an exploration of a deregulated social body rather than for the teleologic reconstruction of an implied moral norm. Finally, in keeping with Griffin’s notion of satire as an exploratory rather than a cautionary tale, it assesses to what extent the rhetorics of provocation, play and display underlying Will Self’s bitter sense of humour may (or may not) sting and ultimately spring the reader into action.
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topic	satire Will Self Great Apes Cock and Bull menippea Dustin Griffin Mikhail Bakhtine Will Self Great Apes Cock and Bull satire menippéé Dustin Griffin Mikhail Bakhtine
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description	La majorité des définitions traditionnelles de la satire soulignent la relation incontestable du genre à une norme sociale de référence que le satiriste s’applique à exposer et moquer, afin d’encourager par contraste les pratiques vertueuses inverses. Toutefois, la satire selfienne, multidirectionnelle de par ses cibles et contradictoire dans ses postulats moraux, suggère de reconsidérer ce cadre théorique. Cet article se propose d’étudier les différentes stratégies narratives qui sous-tendent le texte selfien et concourent à créer une forme satirique du jeu, de l’exhibition et de la provocation, telle que la définit Dustin Griffin, plus qu’une satire téléologique, visant à reformer un horizon moral et éthique.
author	Gonneaud, Justine
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title	‘A Satire at Once Savage and Toothless’: The Politics and Aesthetics of Satire in Will Self’s Works
title_short	‘A Satire at Once Savage and Toothless’: The Politics and Aesthetics of Satire in Will Self’s Works
title_full	‘A Satire at Once Savage and Toothless’: The Politics and Aesthetics of Satire in Will Self’s Works
title_fullStr	‘A Satire at Once Savage and Toothless’: The Politics and Aesthetics of Satire in Will Self’s Works
title_full_unstemmed	‘A Satire at Once Savage and Toothless’: The Politics and Aesthetics of Satire in Will Self’s Works
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