Biography, Literature and Literary Studies, History and Criticism, General
Dislocating the End

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

Hardback Published on: 05/07/2001
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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.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
  • ISBN: 9780820437514
  • Number of pages: 108
  • Dimensions: 159 x 237 x 13 mm
  • Weight: 316g
  • Languages: English