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Book SynopsisArranged in chronological order, with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works, Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the reception of Rosa's life and work in the world of French letters.
Trade ReviewImpeccable scholarship...this will be the definitive study of Rosa in France. - Allan Pasco
Table of ContentsFishing for the [Mediating] Self: Identity and Storytelling in Big Fish Catwoman: Constructions of Identity and Power in Tim Burton's Batman Returns The Consolations and Dangers of Fantasy: Burton, Poe, and Vincent Johnny Depp is a Big Baby!: The Philosophical Significance of Tim Burton's Preoccupation with Childhood Consciousness in Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood Mars Attacks!: Burton, Tocqueville, and the Self-Organizing Power of the American People "Pinioned by a Chain of Reasoning"?: Anti-Intellectualism and Models of Rationality in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow Culture, Hermeneutics, and the Batman Burtonology: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Essences, Christmas, & Vincent Price A Symphony of Horror: the Sublime Synaesthesia of Sweeney Todd Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and the Fantastic It's Uncanny: Death in Tim Burton's Corpus Affect without Illusion: The Films of Edward D. Wood, Jr. after Ed Wood Little Burton Blue: Tim Burton and the Product(ion) of Color in the Fairy Tale Films The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride
