Touché : the duel in literature /

Many of the West's best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh's literary history of the duel illuminates these a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leigh, John, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Dueling in literature.
Dueling > History.
Duel dans la littérature.
Duel > Histoire.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Comparative Literature.
Dueling
Dueling in literature
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Honored in the Breach
  • 2. The Comical Duel
  • 3. The Poignant Duel
  • 4. The Judicial Duel
  • The "Romantic" Duel
  • 6. The Duel and Self- Realization
  • 7. The Grotesque Duel
  • 8. Paradoxes of the Duel
  • Epilogue: 1918
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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