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"What is the literary absurd? What are its key textual features? How can it be analysed? How do different readers respond to absurdist literature? Taking the theories and methodologies of stylistics as its underlying analytical framework, Reading the Absurd tackles each of these…
This is a rollicking tour through a museum of the world's weirdest practices. For example, "preowned" wives were sold at auction in nineteenth-century England; today, in Liberia, accused criminals sometimes drink poison to determine their fate; and, for 250 years, Italy criminal…
"In the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded pataphysics, the absurdist "science of imaginary solutions," a concept that has been nominally recognized as the precursor to Dadaism, Surrealism, and the Theater of the Absurd, among other movements. Over a century …
"This book saved my life." So recalls the Romanian philosopher E.M. Cioran about a book that meditates on madness and death, the absurdity of existence, and the agony of consciousness. Cioran finds in our darkest fears not only reasons to continue living but also the comic, absu…
Der Mythos des Sisyphos: in neuer Übersetzung
by Camus, Albert, Wroblewsky, Vincent von
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Der Mythos des Sisyphos: Neuübersetzung
by Camus, Albert, Wroblewsky, Vincent von
fromRororo
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Type: Book