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Introduction: the world turned upside down. - Menippean satire, the fantastic, and the carnivalesque. - Literature of atrocity: Lord of the flies and The inheritors. - Self-consciousness and the totalitarian personality: Pincher Martin and Free fall. - Constructions of fiction and class: The spire and The pyramid. - Postmodernity and postmodernism: Darkness visible and The paper men. - Historiographic metafiction, preromanticism, and the ship of fools: To the ends of the earth: a sea trilogy. - Conclusion: socialist subversions? The radical and reactionary in Golding's satire
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