Taboo and transgression in British literature from the Renaissance to the present

This comprehensive volume develops a lucid yet sophisticated and innovative overview of the interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to cultural taboo thathave emerged in recent years. INDICE: PART I: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Taboo, Trans­gression and Literature: An Introduction; S.Horlacher Taboo and Transgression: A Socio-Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspective; U.Böker Against Censorship:Literature, Transgression and Taboo from a Diachronic Perspective; L.Heiler PART II: LITERARY ANALYSES Hamlet, Macbeth and 'Sovereign Process'; J.Drakakis The Taboo of Revolutionary Thought after 1660 and Strategies of Subversion in Milton's Paradise Lost and Bun­yan's The Holy War; J.M.Gurr Worshipping Cloacina in the Eighteenth Century: Functions of Scatology in Swift, Pope, Gay, and Sterne; J.M.Gurr The Organic Uncanny: Taboo, Sexuality and Death in British Gothic Novels; S.Butter & M.Eitelmann The Age of Transition as an Age ofTrans­gression? Victorian Poetry and the Taboo of Sexuality, Love and theBody; S.Heinz Metrical Taboos, Rhythmic Transgressions: Historico-Cultural Manipulations of the Voice in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry; C.Scott 'Logicized' Taboo: Abjection in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda; A.Horatschek Revaluating Transgression in Ulysses; S.Glomb Taboo, Transgression and (Self-)Censorship in Twentieth-Century British Theater; F.Degenring The Holocaust and Aesthetic Transgression in Con­temporary British Fiction; L.Heiler

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61990-6
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 280
• Fecha Publicación: 14/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés