Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature by James A.W. Heffernan

Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature

James A.W. Heffernan

440 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

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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 o...

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