The Wreath of Wild Olive: Play, Liminality, and the Study of Literature

by Mihai I. Spariosu

Mihai Spariosu's book strikingly intervenes in the debate raging among the various oppositional and hegemonic discourses by advancing a new philosophy that transcends the currently prevailing agonistic mentality. He develops a ludic-irenic view intended to exceed both a voluntaristic and rationalist mode of thought, thereby convincingly opposing the all-pervading mentality of power in a world marked by difference, scapegoating, and strife between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791433668
• ISBN13: 9780791433669
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"