Satirizing Modernism

Satirizing Modernism examines 20th-century novels that satirize avant-garde artists and authors while also using experimental techniques associated with literary modernism. These novels-such as Wyndham Lewis''s The Apes of God, William Gaddis''s The Recognitions, and Gilbert Sorrentino''s Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things-were under-recognized and received poor reviews at the time of publicat...