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Thinking on thresholds : the poetics of transitive spaces /

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mukherji, Subha (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2011.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.