ISBN:
9783642219948
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XV, 530 p. 1 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
Second Language Learning and Teaching
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Crossroads in Literature and Culture
Keywords:
Sociolinguistics
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Linguistics
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Linguistics
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Sociolinguistics
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Englisch
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Literatur
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Grenzüberschreitung
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Geschichte
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USA
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Literatur
;
Grenzüberschreitung
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
This book contains a selection of papers focusing on the idea of crossing boundaries in literary and cultural texts composed in English. The authors come from different methodological schools and analyse texts coming from different periods and cultures, trying to find common ground (the theme of the volume) between the apparently generically and temporarily varied works and phenomena. In this way, a plethora of perspectives is offered, perspectives which represent a high standard both in terms of theoretical reflection and in-depth analysis of selected texts. Consequently, the volume is addressed to a wide scope of both scholars and students working in the field of English and American literary and cultural studies; furthermore, it will be of interest also to students interested in theoretical issues linked with investigations into literature and culture
Abstract:
The book contains a selection of papers focusing on the idea of crossing boundaries in literary and cultural texts composed in English. The authors come from different methodological schools and analyse texts coming from different periods and cultures, trying to find common ground (the theme of the volume) between the apparently generically and temporarily varied works and phenomena. In this way, a plethora of perspectives is offered, perspectives which represent a high standard both in terms of theoretical reflection and in-depth analysis of selected texts. Consequently, the volume is addressed to a wide scope of both scholars and students working in the field of English and American literary and cultural studies; furthermore, it will be of interest also to students interested in theoretical issues linked with investigations into literature and culture.
Description / Table of Contents:
Crossroads in Literatureand Culture; Preface; Contents; Part I Crossing Thresholds of Literary Theoriesand Critical Approaches; 1 I See a Voicehellip; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…The Figure of the Voice; 3…The Emergence of the Face; 4…Pro(zoo)popeia; 5…Conclusion; References; 2 A New Territory? Literary Criticism as a Literary Genre; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…Theory's Limits; 3…Reading Criticism as Literature; 4…Examples: Two Important Figures; 5…Conclusion; References; 3 Cutting into a New World: Reading The Cut Through Slavoj Zcaronizcaronek; Abstract
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1…Exploring New Territories of the Political in Drama1.1 Taking Theoretical Bearings; 2…Political and Psychoanalytical Traces in The Cut; 3…Conclusions: The Cut and its Engagement with Politics-Laden Theory; References; 4 Internal (Post)Coloniality in Anglo-Irish Literature: Crossing the Boundaries in Postcolonial Comparative Studies; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…The Question of Internal (Post)Coloniality on the Example of Ireland; 3…Internal (Post)Coloniality in the Context of Postcolonial Studies; 4…Conclusion; References
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5 A Post-Battle Landscape: Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook and The CleftAbstract; 1…Introduction; 2…An Absent Centre; 3…A Return of the Repressed; 4…A Lost Object; References; Part II Remapping Women's/Men's Moral and Social Borders; 6 Near the Riverbank: Women, Danger and Place in Dickens; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…Sweet Thames; 2.1 The River of London; 2.2 The 19th Century London; 2.3 Found Drowned; 3…Borders in Dickens; 3.1 Real Borders for Nancy and Martha; 3.2 Nancy: ''If There Was More Like You, There Would Be Fewer Like Me''; 3.3 Martha: ''Take Me Out of These Streetshellip''
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4…The Metaphorical Borders4.1 Prostitution as a Social Border; 4.2 Nancy's Performance; 5…Conclusion; References; 7 ''Women with Iron in'em. Women Who Wanted Land and a Home'': Female Pioneers Staking Out New Territories in the American Popular Fiction of the 1920s and 1930s; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…Social and Literary Background; 2.1 Emergence of New Genres; 2.2 Portrayal of Pioneer Women in American Culture and Women's Literature of the 1920s and 1930s; 3…Rose Wilder Lane's Young Pioneers and Free Land; 3.1 Young Pioneers; 3.2 Free Land; 4…Edna Ferber's Cimarron; 5…Conclusion
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References8 Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Complexities of Gender; Abstract; 1…Introduction: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and 19th Century Conceptions of Gender; 1.1 Three Sonnets: Three Goddesses; 1.2 Sybilla Palmifera or Soul's Beauty: Is This Goddess Alive?; 1.3 Lady Lilith: The Femme Fatale or an Independent Woman?; 1.4 Astarte Syriaca's Unstable Gender; 2…Conclusion; References; 9 ''Outlaw Emotions'': Carol Ann Duffy's ''Eurydice'', Dramatic Monologue and Victorian Women Poets; Abstract; 1…Introduction: Women and the Dramatic Monologue; 2…Victorian Innovations: Amy Levy
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3…Contemporary Dramatic Monologue: Carol Ann Duffy
Note:
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DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-21994-8
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