The TabooInfobase Publishing, 2010 - 292 pàgines From a Polynesian word meaning 'prohibition', a taboo is a social more that should not be broken by society's participants, for doing so can mean punishment. This book discusses the role of the taboo in Howl, Lolita, Lord of the Flies, The Miller's Tale, and many more works. |
Continguts
Confessions of an English Opium Eater Thomas De Quincey | 1 |
Dracula Bram Stoker | 23 |
Howl Allen Ginsberg | 37 |
Julius Caesar William Shakespeare | 51 |
Lady Chatterleys Lover DH Lawrence | 77 |
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov | 91 |
Lord of the Flies William Golding | 99 |
The Millers Tale Geoffrey Chaucer | 113 |
The Poetry and Prose of Sylvia Plath | 157 |
A Rose for Emily William Faulkner | 165 |
Sabbaths Theater Philip Roth | 177 |
The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie | 189 |
The Poetry of Anne Sexton | 199 |
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift | 217 |
Tess of the DUrbervilles Thomas Hardy | 227 |
Ulysses James Joyce | 251 |
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