Dislocating the End: Climax, Closure and the Invention of Genre - Couverture rigide

Rosen, Alan

 
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Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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