This strikingly original work is a testament to our preoccupation with death and desire. An immensely important book, this challenges the way we understand desire, sexuality, and the notion of identity.
This strikingly original work is a testament to our preoccupation with death and desire. An immensely important book, this challenges the way we under...
This monograph analyses the use of caricature as one of the key strategies in narrative fiction since the war. Close analysis of some of the best known postwar novelists including Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Angela Carter and Will Self, reveals how they use caricature to express postmodern conceptions of the self. In the process of moving away from the modernist focus on subjectivity, postmodern characterisation has often drawn on a much older satirical tradition which includes Hogarth and Gillray in the visual arts, and Dryden, Pope, Swift and Dickens in literature. Its...
This monograph analyses the use of caricature as one of the key strategies in narrative fiction since the war. Close analysis of some of the best k...
This volume presents the works of three distinguished contemporary Hungarian playwrights: Istvan Orkeny's Stevie in the Bloodbath (1969-1979), Gyorgy Spiro's The Imposter (1982), and Mihaly Kornis's Kozma (1981). These plays together mirror and elucidate the calamitous history of East Central Europe from World War II to the 1970s. They lament the humiliation of people living under foreign oppression and offer insight into their resistance, perseverance, and unceasing efforts for survival. They focus on a series of collective and individual crises representative of the Eastern bloc, and of...
This volume presents the works of three distinguished contemporary Hungarian playwrights: Istvan Orkeny's Stevie in the Bloodbath (1969-1979), Gyorgy ...
The Port Folio magazine, America's first major journal of literary and political opinion, was edited by Dennie from 1801 to 1811. This study argues that the magazine's defence of classical republican values against the burgeoning Jeffersonian ideology formed a new tradition of American writing.
The Port Folio magazine, America's first major journal of literary and political opinion, was edited by Dennie from 1801 to 1811. This study argues th...
