@inbook{a162293d51be42909ad33f92dc195ebd,
title = "Satirical Apocalypse: Endism and the 1990s Fictions of Will Self",
abstract = "(Will Self, {\textquoteleft}Ingenious Bubble Wrap{\textquoteright}, 26) [T]he 1990s will come to be seen as the Gotterdammerung of periodicity itself. […] [N]ever again will the brute fact of what year it is matter so much in cultural terms. In {\textquoteleft}The Valley of the Corn Dollies{\textquoteright} in the Guardian in 1994, Will Self said of his homeland: {\textquoteleft}It is a culture of profound and productive oppositions. And I believe, personally, the best possible country for someone with a satirical bent to live in. I{\textquoteright}d go further: England has the world{\textquoteright}s top satirical culture{\textquoteright} (Junk Mail, 204) . Elsewhere in {\textquoteleft}Conversations: Martin Amis{\textquoteright}, Self {\textquoteleft}unquestionably{\textquoteright} situates himself as part of that heritage (408) , working in literary satire, aware of his antecedents. Satire itself has a long tradition, traced back variously to Ancient Egypt and to Greece, to the Romans and to Medieval Europe, although arguably the role of satire as a mode...",
author = "Katy Shaw and Philip Tew",
year = "2015",
month = may,
day = "21",
doi = "10.5040/9781474217699.ch-004",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781441172587",
series = "Decade Series",
publisher = "Bloomsbury",
pages = "95--122",
editor = "Leigh Wilson and Nick Hubble and Phillip Tew",
booktitle = "The 1990s",
address = "United Kingdom",
}