Metaphors of confinement : the prison in fact, fiction, and fantasy /

This book describes how literature depicts imprisonment in a wealth of metaphors of confinement in literature from the late middle ages to the present day. As well as carceral metaphors the volume explores how notions of imprisonment extend to other situations such as jobs, marriage, and ideology.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Fludernik, Monika (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Series:	Law and literature (Oxford)
Subjects:	Imprisonment in literature. Captivity in literature. Prisons in literature. Emprisonnement dans la littérature. Captivité dans la littérature. Prisons dans la littérature. Captivity in literature Imprisonment in literature Prisons in literature Electronic books.
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