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1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
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ISBN:
0300206844
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1306715245
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9780300206845
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9781306715249
Inhalt:
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
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 388-404) and index
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Text in English
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ISBN 0300195583
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780300195583
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781306715249
Sprache:
Englisch
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