Faces and Masks of Ugliness in Literary Narratives
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This collection of essays deals primarily with the idea of ugliness as represented in a variety of literary narratives in English. Shakespeare¿s Caliban and his depiction in The Tempest and its contemporary film adaptations are dealt with, just as Joseph Merrick¿s innocence of ugliness and Swinburne¿s aesthetic transgressions of the late-Victorian period are discussed. Moreover, D. H. Lawrence¿s monstrosity of agedness is examined, as well as postcolonial discourses of ugliness in Patrick White, J. M. Coetzee and the Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah. The volume also contains essays on…mehr

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This collection of essays deals primarily with the idea of ugliness as represented in a variety of literary narratives in English. Shakespeare¿s Caliban and his depiction in The Tempest and its contemporary film adaptations are dealt with, just as Joseph Merrick¿s innocence of ugliness and Swinburne¿s aesthetic transgressions of the late-Victorian period are discussed. Moreover, D. H. Lawrence¿s monstrosity of agedness is examined, as well as postcolonial discourses of ugliness in Patrick White, J. M. Coetzee and the Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah. The volume also contains essays on representations of American Indian captivity narratives, on Nathaniel Hawthorne¿s voice in the debate on evil, and on In-yer-face theatre in the Irish context, i.e. Martin McDonagh¿s The Cripple of Inishmaan and Enda Walsh¿s Bedbound.
Autorenporträt
Ryszard W. Wolny is Professor and Director of the School of English at the University of Opole and Lecturer at the Philological School of Higher Education in Wroclaw. He published extensively on British and Australian culture and literature. Zdzislaw Wąsik is a semiotician and communicologist. His recent works deal with the philosophy of language and the sociolinguistic typology of discourses.