Crossing Boundaries
Thinking Through Literature
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2001
224 pages
978-1-84714-250-4 (ISBN)
Description
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 Jay McInerney; the role of clichT in Beckett; music in Wim Wenders; the 'real' in fiction, theory and performance; creative and academic writing; politics and aesthetics. Original contributions by Terry Eagleton and Sally Shuttleworth support this volume's exciting challenge to established boundaries and help to make it a scintillating and thought-provoking read.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-84714-250-4 (9781847142504)
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Content
- Intro
- 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
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