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    Satire bust: the wagers of money

    Brooker, Joseph (2005) Satire bust: the wagers of money. Law and Literature 17 (3), pp. 321-344. ISSN 1535-685X.

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    Abstract

    According to critical tradition, satire relies on a normative background to do its work of correction and moral retribution. What happens when those norms are fraying or absent altogether? Martin Amis’s Money (1984), a key text of the Reagan-Thatcher years, stages this aesthetic and political aporia with coruscating wit and an apocalyptic atmosphere. The relations between satire and value, text and norm, enter a crisis that is morally alarming but artistically productive.

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    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
    Research Centres and Institutes: Contemporary Literature, Centre for
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 09 Jul 2014 14:22
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:35
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/10100

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