Dislocating the End - Climax, Closure and the Invention of Genre

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

The Author: Alan Rosen is Lecturer in the English Department at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He has published on early-modern drama and on Holocaust literature. He has recently edited Celebrating Elie Wiesel: Stories, Essays, Reflections (1998) and is currently writing a book on representing the Holocaust.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Alan Rosen
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 05.07.2001
• EAN: 9780820437514
• ISBN: 978-0-8204-3751-4
• Seiten: 118
• Abmessung: 165 mm x 236 mm x 11 mm
• Gewicht: 352 g
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft