Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Self

Politics & Social Sciences

Fiedler, Leslie A.

Social Sciences

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Love and Death in the American Novel (Peregrine Books)

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Penguin

A study of the British science fiction writer by an American literary critic.

Olaf Stapledon: A Man Divided

Biographies & Memoirs

Oxford University Press

RETURN OF THE VANISHING AMERICAN

JONATHAN CAPE.

The stranger in Shakespeare

History & Criticism

Paladin

From two-headed men and dwarfs to Siamese twins, the phenomenon of the freak has fascinated people for centuries. In this classic study of the very nature of that fascination, the renowned literary and cultural critic Fiedler offers an in-depth examination of man's views of the freak from classical times to present. 150 photos and line drawings.

Freaks: Myths and images of the secret self (A Touchstone book)

Sociology

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Simon & Schuster Books

What was literature?: Class culture and mass society

What was literature, and how did it come to be divided into "high"-- that which critics praise and professors assign-- and "low"-- that which appeals to a mass audience? Why are some works, despite their lasting popularity, ignored b the high priests of literary "taste"?

What Was Literature?: Class Culture and Society

Holiday House

In this provocative book, originally published in 1972, Leslie Fiedler turns his critical eye on what he calls the "borderline figure" in Shakespeare's plays and poems. Neither hero nor villain, this figure defines the limits of the human-it is the shadow, the other, the alien

The Stranger In Shakespeare: Studies in the Archetypal Underworld of the Plays

Barnes&Noble

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