A Camper Shade of RoarRonald Firbank’s Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli and Ivy Compton-Burnett’s Pastors and Master
- 1 Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (España)
ISSN: 0211-5913
Datum der Publikation: 2022
Titel der Ausgabe: Fiction of the Roaring Twenties: 100 Years Later / La narrativa de los locos años veinte: 100 años después
Nummer: 84
Seiten: 45-56
Art: Artikel
Andere Publikationen in: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
Zusammenfassung
This paper looks at some of the manifestations of camp in two very different novels from the 1920s: Ronald Firbank’s Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli and Ivy ComptonBurnett’s Pastors and Masters. Emphasis is placed on those elements which derive from camp’s detachment, theatricalization and fixation on the surface. Two specific aspects are examined in both novels: their use of dialogue (particularly its discontinuity) and their use of static, tableau-like plots. The final considerations address the relationship between camp and irony as seen in camp’s rejection of moral judgement