Linguistics & Semiotics, Judaism & Judaica, Genres & Literary Forms, Drama - Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Historiography, General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism, Religious Biography, Jewish - Biography, English Literature
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Overview
"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."--BOOK JACKET.Editorials
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A study of the transformative function of the notion of catastrophe as it appears in three genres: drama (represented by ), narrative (Defoe's ), and historiography (the work of Gershom Scholem). Rosen (English, Bar-Ilan U., Israel) chose his three authors as representative of their historical periods and so carrying a weight of contextual significance; his focus is on their experimentation with form through the manipulation of catastrophic events. The brief work has no subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
May 1, 2001
Publisher
New York : Peter Lang, c2001.
Pages
108
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780820437514