| #4555737 in Books | State University of New York Press | 1998-01-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.35 x.79 x5.13l,.99 | File type: PDF | 327 pages | ||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| critical study by scholars|By dropslaw witstomp|I am not familiar with the names of the authors of the eleven selections in Gombrowicz's Grimaces (1998). I was most interested in an analysis of his novel, Trans-Atlantyk, in the selection called The Scar of the Foreigner and the Fold of the Baroque: National Affiliations and Homosexuality in Gombrowicz's Trans-Atlantyk by Ewa Pl||The essays engage Gombrowicz through a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, from poststructuralist theories of the text to chaology, and from postcolonial criticism to queer theory. The application of recent theoretical frameworks to the analy
This timely and much needed critical study is devoted to the writing of Witold Gombrowicz, one of the most important Slavic writers in the twentieth century. Written from a variety of theoretical perspectives, ranging from poststructuralism to queer theory and postcolonialism, this book examines the complexity of Gombrowicz's texts in the context of the current reappraisals of the mixed legacies of modernism. By situating Gombrowicz's work in relation to Eastern and West...
You easily download any file type for your device.Gombrowicz's Grimaces: Modernism, Gender, Nationality | Witold Gombrowicz. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
