Crossing Boundaries

Thinking through Literature

Julie Scanlon, Amy Waste, Julie Scanlon, Amy Waste

• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Year: 2001
• Print ISBN: 9781841272320
• eBook ISBN: 9781847142504
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Letteratura
• Subtopic: Critica letteraria

This eclectic collection interrogates boundaries with reference to nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, performance, music and film from a diverse range of critical and theoretical perspectives. The authors probe the issue of negotiating boundaries in their innovative and imaginative investigations of science in Dickens, Eliot and Pater; narrative in Hawking and Weinberg; Bakhtin and the feminization of translation; lesbian romance by Jeanette Winterson; transitional females in migrant postcolonial fiction; pedagogy in South Africa; materiality and hypertext; the semiotic and money in Jay McInerney; the role of clichT in Beckett; music in Wim Wenders; the 'real' in fiction, theory and performance; creative and academic writing; politics and aesthetics. Original contributions by Terry Eagleton and Sally Shuttleworth support this volume's exciting challenge to established boundaries and help to make it a scintillating and thought-provoking read.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Contributors
• Crossing Boundaries—Delegates
• Introduction
• 'So Childish and So Dreadfully Un-Childlike': Cultural Constructions of Idiocy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
• 'Aberrant Passions and Unaccountable Antipathies': Nervous Women, Nineteenth-Century Neurology and Literary Text
• X-Club not X-Files: Walter Pater, Spiritualism and Victorian Scientific Naturalism
• Scientific Prophecies and Modern-Day Seers: Prognostication in the Industrial Fiction of Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell
• Popular Cosmology as Mythic Narrative: A Site for Interdisciplinary Exchange
• Translation as Gay Deception
• The Mark of Desire: Rewriting the Romance and Lesbian-Feminist Textual Strategies
• Constructing the Female Self in Migrant Postcolonial Fiction
• Locating the 'Nigga' in 'The Wood-Pile': Robert Frost, the Academy and Pedagogy in the Context of a South African Tertiary Education
• Enervation in Language as Innovation in Literature: The Function of Cliché in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy
• Reading Between the Lines: Materiality in the Age of Hypertext
• Music to Desire By: Crossing the Berlin Wall with Wim Wenders
• 'Fictional Capital': Economics and Narrative in the Novels of Jay Mclnerney
• Bourdieu versus Deconstruction: The Social (Con)Text of Irony and Reality
• Performance Theory, Practice and the Intrusion of the Real
• Writing on Air
• Aesthetics and Politics
• Index of Authors