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Challenges traditional scholarship on absurdist literature, privileging the reader and the genre''s stylistic achievementsSince Martin Esslin coined ''the Theatre of the Absurd'' to describe experimental drama in the mid-twentieth century, the term ''absurd'' has been adopted as a means of discussing a vast array of literary text. Many accounts have focused on the philosophical and thematic concerns of absurd prose fiction, but literary-criticism has failed to agree on the stylistic, generic, and temporal. This volume takes an alternative approach: its core aim is to provide a coherent, linguistically rigorous examination of the discourse features which characterise the absurd in literature.In order to understand how such a critically ill-defined term continues to have value and relevance to a global readership in the twenty-first century it takes as its starting point the readers who regularly use absurd terms and investigates their discussions in online fora, on literary tagging websites, and in face-t
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9780748669264
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0748669264
Udg. Dato:
27 jun 2013
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
240mm
Højde:
156mm
Forlag:
Edinburgh University Press
Oplagsdato:
27 jun 2013
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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