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Transgression Dr Julian Wolfreys

Transgression By Dr Julian Wolfreys

Transgression by Dr Julian Wolfreys

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Julian Wolfreys introduces students to the central concept of transgression, showing how to interpret the concept from a number of theoretical standpoints. He demonstrates how texts from different cultural and historical periods can be read to examine the workings of 'transgression' and the way in which it has changed over time.

Transgression Summary

Transgression: Identity, Space, Time by Dr Julian Wolfreys

Julian Wolfreys introduces students to the central concept of transgression, showing how to interpret the concept from a number of theoretical standpoints. He demonstrates how texts from different cultural and historical periods can be read to examine the workings of 'transgression' and the way in which it has changed over time.

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'Transgressions provides an exemplary introduction to the labyrinthine modes of reading that we now realize literary texts demand... It is an invaluable, and eminently readable, guide to literary study.' - Juliet Flower McCannell, University of California, Irvine, USA

About Dr Julian Wolfreys

JULIAN WOLFREYS is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Loughborough University, UK. He has written and edited numerous books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, and literary theory.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface .- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Transgression or, Beyond the Obvious .- PART ONE: MAKING THE MODERN SUBJECT.- The 'Endlesse Worke' of Transgression: The Faerie Queene and the 'darke conceit' of Early Modern Identity.- 'Authority Usurpt': Dryden, Modern Subject and the Transgressive Entry of 'Literature' onto the Scene of History.- PART TWO: HAUNTED SUBJECTS.- Victorian Gothic: Towards an Ethnics of Transgression.- 'Gauzy impressions conjured out of nothing': Venice la-bas or, 'les lieux de la' .- Afterword .- Notes.- Works Cited.- Index.

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NLS9780333752760
9780333752760
0333752767
Transgression: Identity, Space, Time by Dr Julian Wolfreys
Dr Julian Wolfreys
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New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2008-09-26
240
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