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Войната за езика: Големите надежди на Кати Акър
The War for Language: The Great Hopes of Kathy Acker

Author(s): Vladimir Poleganov
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«

Summary/Abstract: The focus of this essay is Kathy Acker’s 1982 novel Great Expectations. The text attempts to make a reading of that extraordinary work by focusing on its playful and Protean nature and by “mapping out” the rhetorical strategies Acker uses in her response to various oppressive discourses of power.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 135-143
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Bulgarian