| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 223 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Space in literature.
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Space in literature. |
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Boundaries in literature.
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Boundaries in literature. |
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Liminality in literature.
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Liminality in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Mukherji, Subha, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Thinking on thresholds. London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2011 9780857286659 (DLC) 2010051141 (OCoLC)692084807 |
| ISBN |
9780857288523 electronic book |
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0857288520 electronic book |
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9780857286659 hardcover |
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085728665X hardcover |
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9781783080731 paperback |
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1783080736 paperback |
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1283377187 |
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9781283377188 |
| Standard No. |
9786613377180 |
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