The Dark Thread: From Tragical Histories to Gothic Tales - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1644531631 ISBN 13 : 9781644531631

Editeur : University of Delaware Press, 2019

Synopsis

In The Dark Thread, scholars examine a set of important and perennial narrative motifs centered on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American literatures. Over fourteen essays, contributors highlight the connections between works from early modernity and subsequent texts from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, in which incidents such as murder, cannibalism, poisoning, the burial of the living, the failed burial of the dead, and subsequent apparitions of ghosts that haunt the household unite "high" and "low" cultural traditions. This book questions the traditional separation between the highly honored genre of tragedy and the less respected and generally less well-known genres of histoires tragiques, gothic tales and novels, and horror stories.

Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John D. Lyons is Commonwealth Professor of French at the University of Virginia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Delaware Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1644531631
• ISBN 13: 9781644531631
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Éditeur: Lyons John D.
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