Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Standing at the crossroad of historiography and mythography, such works as Camus' Caligula, Shaw's Saint Joan and— most recently—Peter Shaffer's Amadeus constitute a new mode of tragicomic writing, which Paul Hernadi explores with his usual blend of finesse and erudition. To students of literary kinds and their theory, the volume is of special interest as the first major application of ideas outlined by the same author in Beyond Genre (1972)." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)