Dislocating the End: Climax, Closure and the Invention of Genre (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature) - Hardcover

Rosen, Alan

 
9780820437514: Dislocating the End: Climax, Closure and the Invention of Genre (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature)

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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About the Author

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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