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portada The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language (Theories of Contemporary Culture)
Type
Physical Book
Year
1996
Language
English
Pages
240
Format
Paperback
ISBN
0253210518
ISBN13
9780253210517

The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language (Theories of Contemporary Culture)

Gabriele Schwab (Author) · Indiana University Press · Paperback

The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language (Theories of Contemporary Culture) - Gabriele Schwab

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Synopsis "The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language (Theories of Contemporary Culture)"

The book not only confirms the high ethical stakes in informed contemporary reading; it offers a rare readerly pleasure in... exploring the wider cultural significance of gender and the body and their narrative representation." ―Henry Sussman, SUNY-BuffaloGabriele Schwab revitalizes debates about literature’s cultural function by exploring literary experience as an encounter with otherness. Drawing on literary theory, anthropology, and psychoanalysis, Schwab contends that literature facilitates contact with cultures that may seem foreign to us. At the same time, literature can render the familiar strange, and foreground what a culture tends to repress. At its best, literature challenges the very boundaries of the culture from which it emerges.Schwab’s readings of writers such as Hawthorne, Faulkner, Joyce, Lewis Carroll, Djuna Barnes, Marguerite Duras, and John Cage demonstrate the centrality of aesthetics and the literary to studies of otherness and cultural contact.

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