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Author Hartmann, Johanna.

Title Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt's Works : Interdisciplinary Essays.

Publication Info. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (434 pages).
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Series Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ; v. 52
Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series.
Contents Table of Contents ; Introduction ; Literary Creation and Communication ; Why One Story and Not Another? ; The Rich Zones of Genre Borderlands: Siri Hustvedt's Art of Mingling ; Reality Bites: Fractured Narrative and Author-Reader Interaction in Siri Hustvedt's Work.
"A carnival in hell": Representations of New York City in Siri Hustvedt's Novels The Shaking Woman in the Media: Life Writing and Neuroscience ; Psychoanalysis and Philosophy ; The No Truth about Siri ; Siri's Timequakes.
The Self Is a Moving Target: The Neuroscience of Siri Hustvedt's Artists Dimensions of Tacit Knowledge and the Art(s) of Explication in Siri Hustvedt's Work ; Wounding Words ; Medicine and Narrative ; The Great Glazed Tank of Art: From the Real to the Imaginary with Siri Hustvedt.
"No self is an island": Doctor-Patient Relationships in Siri Hustvedt's Work Mysterious Illness and the Acceptance of Ambiguity ; In Search of a Diagnosis: Siri Hustvedt's The Shaking Woman.
"The image makers": Reality Constitution and the Role of Autism in Siri Hustvedt's The Blazing World Vision, Perception, and Power ; "What fascinate me are the journeys that begin with looking and only looking": Siri Hustvedt's Visual Imagination.
Note "I look and sometimes I see": The Art of Perception in Siri Hustvedt's Novels.
Summary This collection comprises essays from various interdisciplinary perspectives - e.g. literary scholarship, intermediality, art history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and medicine - to analyze and interpret the fictional and non-fictional works by Siri Hustvedt, an author whose reputation and public presence have been growing steadily in the 21st century and who is recognized as one of the most widely read and appreciated contemporary American writers. In her significance and stature as a public intellectual, she is not merely an American writer but a transnational, cosmopolitan author, who develops new forms not only of literary narrative but of interdisciplinary thought and writing, bringing together otherwise separated genres and branches of knowledge in a broad spectrum between literature and philosophy, historiography and art, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, narrative and medicine. The present volume is structured into the parts "Literary Creation and Communication," Psychoanalysis and Philosophy," "Medicine and Narrative," "Vision, Perception, and Power," and "Trauma, Memory, and the Ambiguities of Self" and closes with an interview of Siri Hustvedt by Susanne Becker in which Hustvedt elucidates her personal conception of her own creative processes of writing.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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Subject Hustvedt, Siri -- Criticism and interpretation.
Hustvedt, Siri.
Criticism and interpretation.
Hustvedt, Siri -- Intellectual life.
Intellectual life.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Marks, Christine (Assistant professor)
Zapf, Hubert, 1948-
Other Form: Print version: Hartmann, Johanna. Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt's Works : Interdisciplinary Essays. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, ©2016 9783110407709
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