Thinking on thresholds : the poetics of transitive spaces / / edited by Subha Mukherji [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Anthem Press, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxviii, 223 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 809/.99353
• Soggetto topico: Space in literature; Liminality in literature; Boundaries in literature
• Altri autori: MukherjiSubha
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Subha Mukherji -- Part I: Doors, windows, entries. Windows: looking in, looking out, breaking through / Gillian Beer; Permeable walls and off-stage spaces / Jean Chothia; The queer part doors play in Nabokov's Laughter in the dark / Beci Dobbin; Invasion from outer space: the threshold of annunciations / Subha Mukherji -- Part II: Lives and narratives, territories and worlds. Unsettling thresholds: Mignon and her afterlives / Terence Cave; Dangerous liaisons: desire and limit in The home and The world / Supriya Chaudhuri; Writing through osmotic borders: boundaries, liminality and language in Mehmet Yasin's poetics / Rosita D'Amora; Dancing and romancing: the obstacle of the beach and the threshold of the past / Jonathan Lamb -- Part III: Matter, mind, psyche. Remember me / Michael Witmore; Between sleep and waking: Montaigne, Keats and Proust / Jeremy Lane -- Part IV: reading, writing, playing, listening. Reading on the threshold / Jason Scott-Warren; When I begin I have already begun / Gabriel Josipovici; Thresholds in improvisation: freedom, the eternal present, and the death of jazz / Rick Foot; Thresholds of attention: on listening in literature / Angela Leighton.
• Sommario/riassunto: Through a combination of case studies and theoretical investigations, the essays in this book address the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive space in literature and art.
• Titolo autorizzato: Thinking on thresholds
• ISBN: 1-78308-103-1; 1-283-37718-7; 9786613377180; 0-85728-852-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461414103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II