description: Dislocating the End examines how two concepts – catastrophe and typology – have reconceived the notion of ending. This innovation in ending has in turn gone hand in hand with innovation in genre. Focusing on Shakespeare’s King Lear , Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year , and Gershom Scholem’s theory of catastrophe, this book shows the implications of displaced endings for tragedy, novel, and historiography.
language: English
title: Dislocating the End: Climax, Closure and the Invention of Genre
titlecomplete: Dislocating the End: Climax, Closure and the Invention of Genre (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature)
publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers