Trolling Before the Internet: An Offline History of Insult, Provocation, and Public Humiliation in the Literary Classics

ISBN-13: 9781501391521 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 256 str.

David Rudrum

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Introduction: Trolling as Literature 1. Trolling is… Trolling and its Definitions: What we (don’t) know so far 2. … to defame, insult, or humiliate an opponent in public … From Flyting to Flaming – from Beowulf to Shakespeare 3. … or else to make a public statement … Trolling the Pope: Martin Luther Goes Viral 4. … of views that are not sincerely held, … U Can Haz Babeez! – Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal 5. … but aim instead to court controversy … Oscar Wilde as Contrarian Self-Publicist: How To Put the “Wit” into “Twitter” 6. … or to be provocative and vexatious, … “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste”: Some Avant-Garde Trolls 7. … sometimes incurring legal consequences. Social Justice Trolling: Emile Zola’s J’Accuse Conclusions Further Reading Index