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Faces and Masks of Ugliness in Literary Narratives

Contributor(s): Wasik, Zdzislaw (Other), Wolny, Ryszard W (Editor), Wasik, Zdzislaw (Editor)

ISBN: 9783631645451

Publisher: Peter Lang Copyright AG - Ipsuk

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Pub Date: October 30, 2013

Dewey: 820.9353

LCCN: 2013033377

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.50" H x 8.27" L x 5.83" W ( 0.82 lbs) 165 pages

Series: Philologica Wratislaviensia: From Grammar to Discourse

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Description: The book attempts to disclose various representations of ugliness in discourses ranging from Shakespeare's colonialism to Patrick White's, J. M. Coetzee's and Ayi Kwei Armah's postcolonialism. Attention is also given to American Indian captivity narratives and contemporary British and Irish theatre, where ugliness is the manifestation of the human.

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