Mapping liminalities
Subtitle: thresholds in cultural and literary texts
By: edited by Lucy Kay, Zoë Kinsley, Terry Phillips & Alan Roughley.
Contributors: Kay, Lucy, 1958-; Kinsley, Zoë, 1977-; Phillips, Terry, 1945-; Roughley, Alan, 1952-
Series: Transatlantic aesthetics and culture -- v. 2
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bern; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9783039114559
Subjects: Liminality in literature; American literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- History and criticism; Liminality
Notes: Texts examined include novels, travel narratives, religious texts, and philosophical treatises, etc.
Table of contents: title: A moving world : the port of Liverpool in American fiction / William Blazek; title: "In moody sadness, on the giddy brink" : liminality and home tour travel / Zoë Kinsley; title: "No world between two worlds" : liminality in Anglo-Irish big house literature, 1925-1932 / Terry Phillips; title: The liminal becoming of the rebel Vashti / Jo Carruthers; title: Triangular strategies : cross-mapping the curious spaces of Siri Hustvedt, Paul Auster and Sophie Calle / Christina Ljungberg; title: Liminality, repetition, and trauma in Hemingway's Big two-hearted river and other Nick Adams stories / Peter Messent; title: Mechanistics, grammar and the locality of thought / Louis Armand; title: No future? Stiegler's politics of memory / Arthur Bradley; title: Liminal paperspaces : writing between Derrida and Joyce and being and writing / Alan Roughley.