Transgressing the Limits of Interpretation: Edward Albee's "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Notes toward a Definition of Tragedy)"

The essay looks at Edward Albee's The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? (Notes toward Definition of Tragedy), employing Victor Turner's and René Girard's interdisciplinary theories of ritual, scapegoating, and drama as well as concepts and terms of current theories on subjectivity formation. The...

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Veröffentlicht in:Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS). - Centre for Arts, Humanities and Sciences, University of Debrecen. - 15(2009), 1, Seite 135-153
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2009
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS)
Schlagworte:Arts Behavioral sciences Linguistics
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