Losing Our Heads - Beheadings In Literature And Culture

Informationen zum Autor Regina Janes is professor of English at Skidmore College. She is the author of Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Revolutions in Wonderland and One Hundred Years of Solitude: Modes of Reading . Klappentext Losing Our Heads explores in both artistic and cultural contexts the role of the chopped-off head. Zusammenfassung What is the fascination that decollation holds for us! as individuals and as a culture? Why does the idea make us laugh and the act make us close our eyes? "Losing Our Heads" explores in both artistic and cultural contexts the role of the chopped-off head.

Product details

• Authors: Regina Janes
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.08.2005
• EAN: 9780814742709
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-4270-9
• No. of pages: 255
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies