The Fate Of Felicity Fark In The Land Of The Media
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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What happens when a hapless young woman wanders into the voracious, all-consuming spectacle of the modern media world? Clive James answers that question with razor-sharp wit in The Fate of Felicity Fark in the Land of the Media, a satirical moral poem composed entirely in rhyming couplets, with illustrations by the celebrated cartoonist Marc. The work follows its eponymous protagonist through a madcap, carnivalesque landscape populated by the absurd personalities and institutions of the television and press industries, skewering their vanities and pretensions at every turn. A celebrated polymath — critic, broadcaster, memoirist, and poet — James brings his formidable intelligence and trademark irreverence to bear on the spectacle of mass media culture, crafting a work that sits squarely in the tradition of English verse satire, nodding to Pope and Byron while remaining distinctly contemporary in its targets. The rhyming couplet form, so often associated with Augustan propriety, becomes in James's hands a vehicle for comic devastation, its neat rhythmic closures perfectly suited to the puncturing of pomposity. Whether you are a devotee of literary satire or simply a curious reader bewildered by the media circus, this singular poem leaves you wondering just how much — or how little — the beast has changed.
Author: Clive James
Format: Paperback
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What happens when a hapless young woman wanders into the voracious, all-consuming spectacle of the modern media world? Clive James answers that question with razor-sharp wit in The Fate of Felicity Fark in the Land of the Media, a satirical moral poem composed entirely in rhyming couplets, with illustrations by the celebrated cartoonist Marc. The work follows its eponymous protagonist through a madcap, carnivalesque landscape populated by the absurd personalities and institutions of the television and press industries, skewering their vanities and pretensions at every turn. A celebrated polymath — critic, broadcaster, memoirist, and poet — James brings his formidable intelligence and trademark irreverence to bear on the spectacle of mass media culture, crafting a work that sits squarely in the tradition of English verse satire, nodding to Pope and Byron while remaining distinctly contemporary in its targets. The rhyming couplet form, so often associated with Augustan propriety, becomes in James's hands a vehicle for comic devastation, its neat rhythmic closures perfectly suited to the puncturing of pomposity. Whether you are a devotee of literary satire or simply a curious reader bewildered by the media circus, this singular poem leaves you wondering just how much — or how little — the beast has changed.