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Metaphors of Confinement. The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy

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Monika Fludernik, "Metaphors of Confinement. The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy", Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019

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Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as confining or restrictive. These imaginings coalesce into a 'carceral imaginary' that determines the way we think about prisons, just as social debates about punishment and criminals feed into the way carceral imaginary develops over time.

Examining not only English-language prose fiction but also poetry and drama from the Middle Ages to postcolonial, particularly African, literature, the book juxtaposes literary and non-literary contexts and contrasts fictional and nonfictional representations of (im)prison(ment) and discussions about the prison as institution and experiential reality.

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Diachronic Narratology: Late Medieval and Early Modern English Prose Narrative
01 octobre 2014 - 30 juin 2015
30 juin 2015
475
Monika Fludernik
22994
2019
Littératures
Autre
Monde ou sans région
Monika Fludernik