03956nam 2200649Ia 450 991045102160332120200520144314.01-281-29543-497866112954311-84714-250-8(CKB)1000000000410950(EBL)436167(OCoLC)290594151(SSID)ssj0000132953(PQKBManifestationID)11158656(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000132953(PQKBWorkID)10041601(PQKB)11435078(MiAaPQ)EBC436167(Au-PeEL)EBL436167(CaPaEBR)ebr10224710(CaONFJC)MIL129543(OCoLC)893333969(EXLCZ)99100000000041095020011002d2001 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCrossing boundaries[electronic resource] thinking through literature /edited by Julie Scanlon and Amy Waste ; with contributions by Terry Eagleton and Sally ShuttleworthSheffield, Eng. Sheffield Academic Press20011 online resource (221 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84127-232-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Crossing Boundaries-Delegates; Introduction; 'So Childish and So Dreadfully Un-Childlike': Cultural Constructions of Idiocy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century; 'Aberrant Passions and Unaccountable Antipathies': Nervous Women, Nineteenth-Century Neurology and Literary Text; X-Club not X-Files: Walter Pater, Spiritualism and Victorian Scientific Naturalism; Scientific Prophecies and Modern-Day Seers: Prognostication in the Industrial Fiction of Charles Dickens and Elizabeth GaskellPopular Cosmology as Mythic Narrative: A Site for Interdisciplinary Exchange Translation as Gay Deception; The Mark of Desire: Rewriting the Romance and Lesbian-Feminist Textual Strategies; Constructing the Female Self in Migrant Postcolonial Fiction; Locating the 'Nigga' in 'The Wood-Pile': Robert Frost, the Academy and Pedagogy in the Context of a South African Tertiary Education; Enervation in Language as Innovation in Literature: The Function of Cliché in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy; Reading Between the Lines: Materiality in the Age of HypertextMusic to Desire By: Crossing the Berlin Wall with Wim Wenders' Fictional Capital': Economics and Narrative in the Novels of Jay Mclnerney; Bourdieu versus Deconstruction: The Social (Con)Text of Irony and Reality; Performance Theory, Practice and the Intrusion of the Real; Writing on Air; Aesthetics and Politics; Index of AuthorsThis eclectic collection interrogates boundaries with reference to nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, performance, music and film from a diverse range of critical and theoretical perspectives. The authors probe the issue of negotiating boundaries in their innovative and imaginative investigations of science in Dickens, Eliot and Pater; narrative in Hawking and Weinberg; Bakhtin and the feminization of translation; lesbian romance by Jeanette Winterson; transitional females in migrant postcolonial fiction; pedagogy in South Africa; materiality and hypertext; the semiotic and money inLiteratureHistory and criticismCriticismElectronic books.LiteratureHistory and criticism.Criticism.808.8Scanlon Julie960044Waste Amy960045Eagleton Terry1943-123654Shuttleworth Sally1952-153722MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451021603321Crossing boundaries2175931UNINA