{"product_id":"faces-and-masks-of-ugliness-in-literary-narratives-9783631645451","title":"Faces and Masks of Ugliness in Literary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest \u003c\/i\u003eand 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 \u003ci\u003eIn-yer-face \u003c\/i\u003etheatre in the Irish context, i.e. Martin McDonagh’s \u003ci\u003eThe Cripple of Inishmaan \u003c\/i\u003eand Enda Walsh’s \u003ci\u003eBedbound\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Tadeusz Rachwał\u003ci\u003e: \u003c\/i\u003eThe ugly depths: Outsides and insides in colonial discourse – Ryszard W. Wolny: Australia’s ugliness in Patrick White’s selected writings – Dorota Babilas: The innocence of ugliness: Joseph Merrick, his interpreters and the evils of late-Victorian society – Marek Błaszak: The monstrosity of agedness: The presentation of Granny in D. H. Lawrence’s \u003ci\u003eThe Virgin and the Gipsy \u003c\/i\u003e– Anna Branach-Kallas: Gothicizing the Wendigo: The ambivalences of monstrosity in \u003ci\u003eThree Day Road \u003c\/i\u003eby Joseph Boyden – Stephen Dewsbury: A festering rotten stench: «The Man’s» experience of post-colonial rule in Ayi Kwei Armah’s \u003ci\u003eThe Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born \u003c\/i\u003e– Jacek Fabiszak\u003ci\u003e: \u003c\/i\u003eCaliban, the salvage and deformed slave: On representations of ugliness in film versions of Shakespeare’s \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest \u003c\/i\u003e– Dagmara Krzyżaniak: \u003ci\u003eIn-yer-face \u003c\/i\u003etheatre in the Irish context: Martin McDonagh’s \u003ci\u003eThe Cripple of Inishmaan \u003c\/i\u003eand Enda Walsh’s \u003ci\u003eBedbound \u003c\/i\u003e– Bożena Kucała\u003ci\u003e: \u003c\/i\u003e«To embrace death»: The ageing body in the fiction of J. M. Coetzee – Barbara Leftih: «And Lord, let me die with them»: Evil, ugliness and disgrace in the selected Indian captivity narratives – Ewa Młynarczyk: Disgraceful or thought provoking? Towards a new aesthetic: Algernon Charles Swinburne and the subject matter of poetry – Tomasz Pilch: The figures darkness makes: The voice of Nathaniel Hawthorne in contemporary debates on evil – Jarosław Mihułka: Evil incarnate: The representations of Antichrist in the seventeenth-century English literature.","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51044260708695,"sku":"9783631645451","price":32.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783631645451.jpg?v=1750961054","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/faces-and-masks-of-ugliness-in-literary-narratives-9783631645451","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}