Dislocating the End: Climax, Closure and the Invention of Genre (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature)
Dislocating the End examines how two concepts – catastrophe and typology – have reconceived the notion of ending. This innovation in ending has in turn gone hand in hand with innovation in genre. Focusing on Shakespeare’s King Lear, Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year, and Gershom Scholem’s...
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Dislocating the End examines how two concepts – catastrophe and typology – have reconceived the notion of ending. This innovation in ending has in turn gone hand in hand with innovation in genre. Focusing on Shakespeare’s King Lear, Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year, and Gershom Scholem’s theory of catastrophe, this book shows the implications of displaced endings for tragedy, novel, and historiography.
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780820437514 (0820437514)
ASIN: 0820437514
Publish date: 2001-07-05
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Pages no: 108
Edition language: English
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