Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300206844
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1306715245
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9780300206845
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9781306715249
Content:
In works of Western literature ranging from Homer's 'Odyssey' to Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' the giving and taking of hospitality is sometimes pleasurable, but more often perilous. Heffernan traces this leitmotiv through the history of our greatest writings, including Christ's Last Supper, Macbeth's murder of his royal guest, and Camus's short story on French colonialism in Arab Algeria. By means of such examples and many more, this book considers what literary hosts, hostesses, and guests do to as well as for each other. In doing so, it shows how often treachery rends the fabric of trust that hospitality weaves
Content:
Introduction -- Classical hospitality -- Biblical hospitality -- Beowulf and Gawain: monstrosity, reciprocity, seduction -- Staging hospitality: Shakespeare -- Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the spirit of place -- Rousseau to Stendhal: the eroticized hostess -- Fielding to James: domesticity, mating, power -- Proust's hostesses -- Joyce, Woolf, Camus -- Epilogue
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-404) and index
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Text in English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0300195583
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300195583
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781306715249
Language:
English
URL:
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