LEADER 03956nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910451021603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-29543-4 010 $a9786611295431 010 $a1-84714-250-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000410950 035 $a(EBL)436167 035 $a(OCoLC)290594151 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000132953 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11158656 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000132953 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10041601 035 $a(PQKB)11435078 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC436167 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL436167 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10224710 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL129543 035 $a(OCoLC)893333969 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000410950 100 $a20011002d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aCrossing boundaries$b[electronic resource] $ethinking through literature /$fedited by Julie Scanlon and Amy Waste ; with contributions by Terry Eagleton and Sally Shuttleworth 210 $aSheffield, Eng. $cSheffield Academic Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84127-232-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 Gaskell 327 $aPopular 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 Cliche? in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy; Reading Between the Lines: Materiality in the Age of Hypertext 327 $aMusic 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 Authors 330 $aThis 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 in 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCriticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCriticism. 676 $a808.8 701 $aScanlon$b Julie$0960044 701 $aWaste$b Amy$0960045 701 $aEagleton$b Terry$f1943-$0123654 701 $aShuttleworth$b Sally$f1952-$0153722 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451021603321 996 $aCrossing boundaries$92175931 997 $aUNINA