Faces and Masks of Ugliness in Literary Narratives
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
3631645457
ISBN-13
9783631645451
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New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
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Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 30th, 2013
Print length
165 Pages
Weight
322 grams
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15.70 x 21.70 x 1.50 cms
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The arts: general issuesLiterary studies: generalRegional studiesSociety & culture: general
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The book attempts to disclose various representations of ugliness in discourses ranging from Shakespeare’s colonialism to Patrick White’s, J. M. Coetzee’s and Ayi Kwei Armah’s postcolonialism. Attention is also given to American Indian captivity narratives and contemporary British and Irish theatre, where ugliness is the manifestation of the human.
This collection of essays deals primarily with the idea of ugliness as represented in a variety of literary narratives in English. Shakespeare’s Caliban and his depiction in The Tempest and its contemporary film adaptations are dealt with, just as Joseph Merrick’s innocence of ugliness and Swinburne’s aesthetic transgressions of the late-Victorian period are discussed. Moreover, D. H. Lawrence’s monstrosity of agedness is examined, as well as postcolonial discourses of ugliness in Patrick White, J. M. Coetzee and the Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah. The volume also contains essays on representations of American Indian captivity narratives, on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s voice in the debate on evil, and on In-yer-face theatre in the Irish context, i.e. Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan and Enda Walsh’s Bedbound.
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