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Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature

Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature

Heffernan, James A. W.

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0300195583
ISBN13: 9780300195583
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: May 27 2014
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.12 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
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 is 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's short story on 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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