Thinking on thresholds
Subtitle: the poetics of transitive spaces
By: edited by Subha Mukherji
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780857286659
Subjects: Boundaries in literature; Liminality in literature; Space in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Subha Mukherji; title: 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; title: 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; title: Part III: Matter, mind, psyche. Remember me / Michael Witmore; Between sleep and waking: Montaigne, Keats and Proust / Jeremy Lane; title: 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.