Julian Wolfreys

Transgression (eBook, PDF)

Identity, Space, Time

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Julian Wolfreys introduces students to the central concept of transgression, showing how to interpret the concept from a number of theoretical standpoints. He demonstrates how texts from different cultural and historical periods can be read to examine the workings of 'transgression' and the way in which it has changed over time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137021274
• Artikelnr.: 62860791

Autorenporträt

JULIAN WOLFREYS is Associate Professor in the department of English at the University of Florida, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

General Editor's Preface .- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Transgression or, Beyond the Obvious .- PART ONE: MAKING THE MODERN SUBJECT.- The 'Endlesse Worke' of Transgression: The Faerie Queene and the 'darke conceit' of Early Modern Identity.- 'Authority Usurpt': Dryden, Modern Subject and the Transgressive Entry of 'Literature' onto the Scene of History.- PART TWO: HAUNTED SUBJECTS.- Victorian Gothic: Towards an Ethnics of Transgression.- 'Gauzy impressions conjured out of nothing': Venice là-bas or, 'les lieux de la' .- Afterword .- Notes.- Works Cited.- Index.