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Crossing boundaries : thinking through literature /
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 investi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sheffield, Eng. :
Sheffield Academic Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 ExchangeTranslation 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.