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

By Alan Rosen

Book information

Publisher
Peter Lang Inc.
Year
2001
ISBN
0820437514, 9780820437514
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
599 kB (613517 bytes)
Series
Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
Pages
108\112
Time added
2016-11-12 07:04:19
Criticism & Theory;History & Criticism;Literature

Description

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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