Haunted by Words: Scandalous Texts

ISBN-13: 9783034313957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 246 str.

Alyson Miller

Opis

This book critically examines a wide range of contemporary literary scandals in order to identify the cultural and literary anxieties revealed by controversial works. It explores how scandal predominantly emerges in relation to texts which offer challenging representations concerning children, women, sexuality, religion and authenticity, and how literary controversies bring to the surface a series of concerns about the complex construction of identity, history and reality. Including works such as J.K. Rowling s Harry Potter series (1996 2007), Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho (1991), James Frey s A Million Little Pieces (2003), Misha Defonseca s Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust (1997), Salman Rushdie s The Satanic Verses (1988) and Philip Pullman s His Dark Materials trilogy (1995 2000), the author analyses a broad spectrum of texts in order to examine why books continue to provoke public debate and outrage, and what the arguments surrounding scandalous works suggest about literature and the world."

Spis treści

Contents: Unsuited to Age Group: The Anxieties of Children's Literature - Dismembering Women: Gender and Identity in Top-Notch Smut - The Art of Persuasive Lying: Faking it in Memoir - From Holy Books to Satanic Verses: Confronting the Sacred.

O autorze

Alyson Miller has a PhD in literary studies from Deakin University, where she is a lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts. Her creative and critical works have been published in international and Australian journals. Her research examines scandalous literature, identity politics, and anxieties relating to gender and sexuality.