Haunted by Words
Scandalous Texts
(Sprache: Englisch)
Including controversial works such as Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho, James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, this book analyses why literature continues to provoke...
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Including controversial works such as Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho, James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, this book analyses why literature continues to provoke public debate, and what scandalous works suggest about literature, the literary and the world.
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This book critically examines a wide range of contemporary literary scandals in order to identify the cultural and literary anxieties revealed by controversial works. It explores how scandal predominantly emerges in relation to texts which offer challenging representations concerning children, women, sexuality, religion and authenticity, and how literary controversies bring to the surface a series of concerns about the complex construction of identity, history and reality. Including works such as J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (1996-2007), Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho (1991), James Frey's A Million Little Pieces (2003), Misha Defonseca's Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust (1997), Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (1988) and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy (1995-2000), the author analyses a broad spectrum of texts in order to examine why books continue to provoke public debate and outrage, and what the arguments surrounding scandalous works suggest about literature and the world.
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Contents: Unsuited to Age Group: The Anxieties of Children's Literature - Dismembering Women: Gender and Identity in Top-Notch Smut - The Art of Persuasive Lying: Faking it in Memoir - From Holy Books to Satanic Verses: Confronting the Sacred.
Autoren-Porträt von Alyson Miller
Alyson Miller has a PhD in literary studies from Deakin University, where she is a lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts. Her creative and critical works have been published in international and Australian journals. Her research examines scandalous literature, identity politics, and anxieties relating to gender and sexuality.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alyson Miller
- 2013, Neuausgabe, 246 Seiten, Maße: 14,9 x 21,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
- ISBN-10: 3034313950
- ISBN-13: 9783034313957
- Erscheinungsdatum: 29.04.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
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