Dislocating the end
Subtitle: climax, closure, and the invention of genre
By: Alan Rosen.
Series: Studies on themes and motifs in literature ;
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Scholem, Gershom Gerhard, 1897-; English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Disasters in literature.; Invention (Rhetoric); Narration (Rhetoric); Closure (Rhetoric); Historiography.; Literary form.
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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.