Literature and Fascination
Sibylle Baumbach
Jul 2015 · Springer
Ebook
318
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About this ebook
Exploring literary fascination as a key concept of aesthetic attraction, this book illuminates the ways in which literary texts are designed, presented, and received. Detailed case studies include texts by William Shakespeare, S.T. Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Don DeLillo, and Ian McEwan.
About the author
Sibylle Baumbach (PhD, LMU Munich; MA, UC Santa Barbara) is Full Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Innsbruck. Previously she taught at the universities of Mainz, Warwick, Giessen, and Stanford. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Art of Physiognomy (2008) and editor of Regions of Culture – Regions of Identity (2010).
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