Literature and Fascination

• Author(s): Sibylle Baumbach,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 318
• ISBN_10: 1137538015
  ISBN_13: 9781137538017
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / General , Literary Criticism / Poetry , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Philosophy / General ,

Description:... Exploring literary fascination as a key concept of aesthetic attraction, this book illuminates the ways in which literary texts are designed, presented, and received. Detailed case studies include texts by William Shakespeare, S.T. Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Don DeLillo, and Ian McEwan.