Transgression

Identity, Space, Time

AvJulian Wolfreys

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Julian Wolfreys introduces students to the central concept of transgression, showing how to interpret the concept from a number of theoretical standpoints. He demonstrates how texts from different cultural and historical periods can be read to examine the workings of 'transgression' and the way in which it has changed over time.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-09-26
Mått:138 x 216 x 15 mm
Vikt:395 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Transitions
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780333752753

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JULIAN WOLFREYS is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Loughborough University, UK. He has written and edited numerous books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, and literary theory.

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'Transgressions provides an exemplary introduction to the labyrinthine modes of reading that we now realize literary texts demand... It is an invaluable, and eminently readable, guide to literary study.' - Juliet Flower McCannell, University of California, Irvine, USA

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General Editor's PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Transgression or, Beyond the ObviousPART ONE: MAKING THE MODERN SUBJECTThe 'Endlesse Worke' of Transgression: The Faerie Queene and the 'darke conceit' of Early Modern Identity'Authority Usurpt': Dryden, Modern Subject and the Transgressive Entry of 'Literature' onto the Scene of HistoryPART TWO: HAUNTED SUBJECTSVictorian Gothic: Towards an Ethnics of Transgression'Gauzy impressions conjured out of nothing': Venice là-bas or, 'les lieux de la'AfterwordNotesWorks CitedIndex.