The semiotics of exile in literature
By: Hong Zeng.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230104471
Subjects: Exiles' writings -- History and criticism; Exiles in literature; Expatriation in literature; Displacement (Psychology) in literature; Symbolism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Semiotics of exile in photography: photography in Wang Anyi's The melody of everlasting regret; Time, image and fiction in Peter Handke's Der kurze brief zum langen abshied; title: Poetics of exile: ghost as eros and irony in canto fifteen of Don Juan; an Heideggerian approach to Emily Dickinson's poetry on death; Sylvia Plath and Edvard Munch : mindscape of chagrin; Hai Zi's Zagreus; exiled from Taoist paradise: split voice in Gu Cheng's poetry; title: Semiotics of exile in tragedy: The beloved in the tradition of western tragedy; a comparative study of An American tragedy and The great Gatsby; title: Ecriture feminine and the semiotics of exile; title: Cosmic exile and the fourth dimension in Escher, Borges, and Proust; title: Artist-in-exile: irony, grotesque and fragmentation in the figure of the artist in Der Sandmann and Rat Krespel; French symbolist poetry and imagery in A portrait of the artist as a young man.