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Crossing boundaries : thinking through literature / / edited by Julie Scanlon and Amy Waste ; with contributions by Terry Eagleton and Sally Shuttleworth
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Pubblicazione: | Sheffield, Eng., : Sheffield Academic Press, 2001 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
Disciplina: | 808.8 |
Soggetto topico: | Literature - History and criticism |
Criticism | |
Altri autori: |
ScanlonJulie
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 Gaskell |
Popular 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 Hypertext | |
Music 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 | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This 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 |
Altri titoli varianti: | Thinking through literature |
Titolo autorizzato: | Crossing boundaries ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-281-29543-4 |
9786611295431 | |
1-84714-250-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910810199703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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