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Transgressive Fiction

The New Satiric Tradition

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  • © 2013

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  1. Robin Mookerjee
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Criminal Rehabilitation

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    Pages 1-14

  3. Enemies of the State: The Atavistic Mock Epic

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    Pages 15-44

  4. Liminal Intent: Nabokov and Burroughs

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    Pages 45-72

  5. A History of Violence: From Satire to Transgression

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    Pages 73-100

  6. Sex Offenders: Stranger than Fiction

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    Pages 101-168

  7. False Pretenses: The Antisocial Hero

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    Pages 169-227

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 228-247
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Often dismissed as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire and the Rabelaisian carnal folk sensibility praised by Bakhtin. This study, the first of its kind, provides a thorough literary background and analysis of key transgressive authors such as Acker, Amis, Carter, Ellis, and Palahniuk.

About the author

Robin Mookerjee is Co-Chair of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College, the New School for the Liberal Arts, USA. He has been a faculty member at Eugene Lang College since 2000, playing a key role in curriculum development. He is the author of Identity and Society in American Poetry (2008) and regularly publishes reviews, criticism, and poetry. His work explores the intellectual backgrounds of contemporary life, literature, and culture.

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