Authority and transgression in literature and film

✍ Scribed by Bonnie Braendlin, Hans P. Braendlin

Publisher: University Press of Florida
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Edition: 1st
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Well-known scholars in the fields of literature and film address the issues of authority and transgression as sociocultural phenomena, discussing such topics as male and female sexuality, socioeconomic formations, history and myth, the relative power of fictionality, genre, canon formation, cinematic conventions, and conventions of academic discourse.

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