Images of Idiocy

Images of Idiocy

The Idiot Figure in Modern Fiction and Film

Halliwell, Martin

Taylor & Francis Ltd

01/2004

280

Dura

Inglês

9780754602651

15 a 20 dias

680

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Contents: Introduction: idiocy and cultural representation; Idiocy in the 19th Century: Romantic and Victorian idiots; Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert and Jean Renoir); The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky and Akira Kurosawa); Idiocy and Modernism: The Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad and Alfred Hitchcock); Kaspar Hauser (Jakob Wassermann and Werner Herzog); Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck and Lewis Milestone); Idiocy after World War II: Wise Blood (Flannery O'Connor and John Huston); Waterland (Graham Swift and Stephen Gyllenhaal); Such a Long Journey (Rohinton Mistry and Sturla Gunnarsson); Conclusion: idiocy in contemporary film; Filmography; Bibliography; Index.
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