Images of Idiocy: The Idiot Figure in Modern Fiction and Film by Martin Halliwell
Images of Idiocy: The Idiot Figure in Modern Fiction and Film

Martin Halliwell

Images of Idiocy: The Idiot Figure in Modern Fiction and Film

Martin Halliwell

280 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

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This book traces the concept of idiocy as it has developed in fiction and film in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses particularly on visual images of idiocy and argues that writers as diverse as Gustave Flaubert, Fyodor Dostoevsky,...

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