Michael Shallcross
Durham University, English Studies, Undergraduate Tutoredit
- Modernist Literature (Literary Modernism), The Carnivalesque, Satire & Irony, G.K. Chesterton, Parody, Postmodernism, and 12 moreWyndham Lewis, Russian Formalism, Nonsense, Dostoevsky, English Studies, Urbanism, Bakhtin, Detective Fiction, Chesterton, English Literature, Modernism, and Postmodern Literatureedit
- I recently completed a doctorate at Durham University. My thesis, 'The Worshipper's Half-Holiday: G.K. Chesterton and... moreI recently completed a doctorate at Durham University. My thesis, 'The Worshipper's Half-Holiday: G.K. Chesterton and Parody', examines the parodic motifs that permeate Chesterton's diverse output, with particular emphasis upon his detective fiction, but also with reference to his nonsense verse, journalism, novels, critical essays, and public performances.
I particularly focus upon the ways in which Chesterton’s use of parody enabled him to engage with the work of various figureheads of modernism — including Oscar Wilde, T.S. Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis — whose aesthetic programmes he ostensibly opposed.
On this basis, I argue that the simultaneous inscription of similarity and difference encoded within the parodic act makes it a particularly effective means of questioning compartmentalising approaches to genre and literary history.edit
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