Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature.

In works of Western literature ranging from Homer's "Odyssey" to Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" The giving and taking of hospitality are sometimes pleasurable, but more often perilous. Heffernan traces this leitmotiv through the history of our greatest writings, including Christ's "Last Supper", Macbeth's murder of his royal guest, and Camus' short story of French colonialism in Arab Algeria. By means of such examples and many more, this book considers what literary hosts, hostesses, and guests do to as well as for each other. In doing so, it shows how often treachery rends the fabric of trust that hospitality weaves.
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An aparitie	July 2014
Autor	Heffernan James A.W.
Dimensiuni	23,5x15,6 cm
Editura	Yale University Press
Format	Hardback
Limba	Engleza
Nr pag	448