Taboo and Transgression in British Literature from the.
Description: Taboo and Transgression in British Literature from the Renaissance to the Present develops an innovative overview of the interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to the topic that have emerged in recent years. Alongside exemplary model analyses of key periods and representative primary texts, this exciting new anthology of critical essays has been specifically designed to fill a.
Generally, the book describes how people’s lives and behavior may be affected by some minor things. This paper discusses the novel The God of Small Things, which mainly focuses on love laws people apply to, thus they are responsible for their enforcement. The guilty as well as punishment for breaking them are the main issues described in the story.
In Carmilla, we encounter transgression of a different sort than in the aforementioned Gothic texts (although gender still plays a crucial role), i.e. sexual transgression. Le Fanu is one of the Gothic writers (another is Stoker) who used Gothic fiction elements to talk about topics that were taboo, namely, sex and sexuality. His novel depicts the intense emotional connection between two young.
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What is violence and how do we distinguish between representations of violence and acts of violence. How do constructions of violence differ historically? Examining different representations of violence in music, the media, photography, art and film, this first lecture will introduce the topic of violence, by asking the question, how do we know what we.
Writing the Caribbean as a locus of transgression in British. (2006) Pagina-navigatie: Main; Save publication. Save as MODS; Export to Mendeley; Save as EndNote; Export to RefWorks; Title: Writing the Caribbean as a locus of transgression in British Literature of the 18th century: Published in: Transgression and Taboo: Critical essays: Author: Raghunath, A.S. Editor: Messier, V. Publisher.
The essays collected in this volume dress this rift by re-introducing the notion of aesthetic which has tended to be obliterated from critically discourse in American literature. They draw attention to the fact that the literary imagination represents a specific social field of meaning-production and calls for a specific attitude of the reader towards language as a means of reality-production.