In the Reading Gaol

by Valentine Cunningham and Jen Beagin

In this critical tour de force , Valentine Cunningham offers a sequence of controversial arguments in favour of the worldly stuff of texts, a commodity that he sees to be still too commonly discredited, down-played and repressed by post-modernist theory and practice. In the course of its critique this books inspects, with startling originality, texts from the Bible to Jane Eyre, Hamlet to Batman (the movie), Tristram Shandy to Finnegan's Wake, concentrating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631151982
• ISBN13: 9780631151982
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 424 Pages