Publication Date:
2024-04-11
Description:
The Getty Fiend, a contemporary medieval melodrama set in Los Angeles’s Getty Museum, takes the reader on a tour filled with rock stars and warrior-kings, werewolves and archivists, sartorial Huns and libertine saints, all seen through the keenly dramatic flair of a collector’s eye. A cinematic and labyrinthine take on pulp horror, Ken White’s screenplay-in-verse is a monster mash-up of forms and languages, facades and carnal catastrophes, archaic languages and misplaced rhetorics—a campy, fantastical gender-bending transformation into the inadvertently divine.
Keywords:
werewolves;Bisclavret;Getty Museum;Los Angeles;mash-up;medieval literature;post-medievalism
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thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DC Poetry::DCF Poetry by individual poets
Language:
English
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