Crossing boundaries : thinking through literature /: thinking through literature. (2001)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Thinking through literature
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Julie Scanlon and Amy Waste ; with contributions by Terry Eagleton and Sally Shuttleworth.
• Other Names: Scanlon, Julie; Waste, Amy; Eagleton, Terry, 1943-; Shuttleworth, Sally, 1952-
• 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 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.
• Publisher Details: Sheffield, Eng : Sheffield Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Extent: 1 online resource (220 pages)
• Subjects: 809; Literature -- History and criticism; Criticism; TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM -- General; Criticism; Literature; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1847142508; 9781847142504
• Related ISBNs: 9781841272320; 9781847142504; 1841272329
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.