By Stefan Horlacher, Stefan Glomb, Lars Heiler
Taboo and Transgression in British Literature from the Renaissance to the current develops an leading edge assessment of the interdisciplinary theoretical methods to the subject that experience emerged lately. along exemplary version analyses of key sessions and consultant fundamental texts, this intriguing new anthology of severe essays has been in particular designed to fill an enormous hole within the box of literary and cultural stories. This e-book lines the advanced dynamic and ongoing negotiation of notions of transgression and taboo as a vital, notwithstanding usually missed, part to realizing the improvement, construction, and perception of literature from the early smooth Elizabethan interval via postmodern debates. the mix of a vast theoretical and historic framework overlaying virtually fifty consultant authors and ?uvres makes this crucial interpreting for college kids and experts alike within the fields of literary stories and cultural stories.
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Späth; Houswitschka). This is especially true with regard to cannibalism, the stigma being used as a weapon to accuse internal or colonial enemies of inhumanity. Whereas in Greek times, the so-called anthropophagy was associated with non-Hellenic barbarians, cannibalism was throughout English history used to define the dangerous “other” in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, in Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, evoking the “Unspeakable Rites,” as well as in the popular accounts of the Scottish Sawney Beane family living in a cave by the sea in James VI’s Scotland and robbing and murdering unwary travelers, or the lurid Barber of Fleet Street, Sweeney Todd, cropping up in Edward Lloyd’s The Spring of Pearls (1840) and up to the present times reappearing on the stage, or the representations of the Irish Fenian as a monstrous Caliban, or the Irish revolutionary Charles Parnell as Frankenstein’s monster (see the caricatures in Punch, 20 May 1882 and 19 Mar.
1057/9780230105997 - Taboo and Transgression in British Literature from the Renaissance to the Present, Edited by Stefan Horlacher, Stefan Glomb and Lars Heiler Uwe Böker discourse became the domains of “policing” by the Societies for the Reformation of Manners, which were broadly middle-class voluntary associations trying to promote civilized refinement, to change collective identities and to purge the public space of transgressive behavior. ), law and law enforcement remained, although the English lacked the coercive capacities and institutions of a fully developed and centralized police force, in the hands of the political elite (cf.
Above all they now serve as a means of creating new political identities, and they are as well an inspiration for literary creations that question individual attitudes and hegemonic power structures, encouraging creative writers to transcend the narrow boundaries of dogmas and fundamentalist absolutes. 1057/9780230105997 - Taboo and Transgression in British Literature from the Renaissance to the Present, Edited by Stefan Horlacher, Stefan Glomb and Lars Heiler Uwe Böker of the fatwa on Rushdie, challenging taboos on both sides.
