Hospitality and treachery in Western literature /

In works of Western literature ranging from Homer's 'Odyssey' to Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' the giving and taking of hospitality is sometimes pleasurable, but more often perilous. Heffernan traces this leitmotiv through the history of our greatest wr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heffernan, James A. W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Hospitality in literature.
Betrayal in literature.
European literature > History and criticism.
Hospitalité dans la littérature.
Trahison (Morale) dans la littérature.
Littérature européenne > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Betrayal in literature
European literature
Hospitality in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Classical hospitality
  • Biblical hospitality
  • Beowulf and Gawain: monstrosity, reciprocity, seduction
  • Staging hospitality: Shakespeare
  • Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the spirit of place
  • Rousseau to Stendhal: the eroticized hostess
  • Fielding to James: domesticity, mating, power
  • Proust's hostesses
  • Joyce, Woolf, Camus
  • Epilogue.

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