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Joseph Westfall is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston - Downtown, and the author of The Kierkegaardian Author (2007) as well as numerous articles and book chapters, including a contribution to Curb Your Enthusiasm and Philosophy (2012). His research interests are afficher plus primarily in European philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of literature and film. afficher moins

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I didn't expect to be blown away by this book, but I was hoping it would be slightly better than it is. So many of the essays are shallow or don't really prove their thesis that most of the time I felt like I would have been better off reading fan metas--at least the fans wouldn't have gotten characters' names wrong, unlike some of the contributors to this book!

There were a couple of standout essays: Andrew Pavelich's "The Light from Friendship," about Hannibal's and Will Graham's relationship in the TV series; Joseph Westfall's essay on Hannibal's sense of humor, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Dinner Party"; and "Doctor, Heal Thyself," Richard McClelland's explication/defense of the way Thomas Harris ended Hannibal, were all worthwhile reads, but there is little in this volume that anyone interested enough in Hannibal Lecter to pick up a book about him wouldn't have already thought of themselves.… (plus d'informations)
 
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Œuvres
7
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45
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#340,917
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½ 3.5
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1
ISBN
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