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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821118103321

Autore

Donoghue William

Titolo

Mannerist Fiction : Pathologies of Space from Rabelais to Pynchon / / William Donoghue

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2014

ISBN

1-4426-6977-2

1-4426-6976-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Classificazione

18.05

18.06

18.25

Disciplina

823/.509

Soggetti

English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

French fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

Mannerism (Literature)

Mannerism (Art)

Formalism (Literature)

Space and time in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Big people and little people : two cases of disproportion. Rabelais and Mannerism ; Swift and commensuratio -- Pathologies of deformation : Jonson, Sade, Pynchon. Narcissism : Jonson and the disfigured self ; Sade and the deformed body ; Hysteria : Pynchon's cartoon space -- Back to the future : From Picasso to Aristotle. Modernism and Mannerism ; Space and time for the ancients.

Sommario/riassunto

Annotation