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The Good Fight!
- Author(s):
- Patrick McEvoy-Halston (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, LLC Canadian, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
- Subject(s):
- Canadian literature, Drama
- Item Type:
- Essay
- Tag(s):
- George Walker, Love and Anger
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/qyv1-xz55
- Abstract:
- George Walker's "The Good Fight" as arguing for means towards self-growth which aren't merely acting out; which aren't simply signs of perversity, of mental illness. Argues that rather than delineating the key differences between the downtrodden -- those stepped on -- and the rich -- those (gleefully) doing the stomping down -- it is truly more successful in lining up their similarities, with the "moral justification" of the once-rich, now-reformer, something of a canard -- a laugh-out-loud joke, semblencing, poorly, as something legit. Ostensibly a satire on capitalism, this essay argues for it being better understand as a satire OF all such satires. One way of gaming things your way, vs. another, with all such insufficient compared with genuine self-revitalization, however oddly that might come about.
- Notes:
- MA graduate paper.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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