商品簡介
Meindl (English, U. of Erlangen-Nnrnberg, Germany) synthesizes Kayser's and Bakhtin's views of the grotesque and Heidegger's philosophy of being to demonstrate that American fiction has tried to convey the existential dimension. He shows how the grotesque has been instrumental in expressing existential thought, arguing that the notion of decentering the subject did not originate with deconstruction, and traces the existential grotesque through texts by authors including Melville, Faulkner, and O'Connor. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
作者簡介
Dieter Meindl is Professor of English at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg in Germany.
