Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works : : Interdisciplinary Essays /

Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works : : Interdisciplinary Essays / / ed. by Johanna Hartmann, Christine Marks, Hubert Zapf.

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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 pre...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Becker, Susanne,
Bein, Britta,
Birkle, Carmen,
Böger, Astrid,
Charon, Rita,
Davoine, Françoise,
Donn, Katharina,
Däwes, Birgit,
Gelhaus, Petra,
Hartmann, Johanna,
Hornung, Alfred,
Hustvedt, Siri,
Lösch, Klaus,
Marks, Christine,
Mélèse, Lucien,
Paul, Heike,
Rabaté, Jean-Michel,
Rippl, Gabriele,
Rohr, Susanne,
Rosenthal, Caroline,
Sarkowsky, Katja,
Schliephake, Christopher,
Schulz-Hoffmann, Carla,
Schwarz, Heike,
Tappen-Scheuermann, Diana,
Taylor, Mark C.,
Thiemann, Anna,
Tougaw, Jason,
Zapf, Hubert,
HerausgeberIn:
Hartmann, Johanna,
Marks, Christine,
Zapf, Hubert,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series , 52
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 425 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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
  • “I look and sometimes I see”: The Art of Perception in Siri Hustvedt’s Novels
  • “Openings that can’t be closed”: Patterns of Surveillance Culture in Siri Hustvedt’s Novels
  • Portraits of the (Post‐)Feminist Artist: Female Authorship and Authority in Siri Hustvedt’s Fiction
  • Trauma, Memory, and the Ambiguities of Self
  • History and Trauma in Siri Hustvedt’s The Sorrows of an American
  • Crisis of Knowledge: Trauma in The Sorrows of an American
  • “The wounded psyche is not a broken leg”: Illness, Injury, and Writing the Self in Siri Hustvedt’s Work
  • Embodied Memories, Embodied Meanings: Mind, Matter, and Place in the Works of Siri Hustvedt
  • “We have different selves over the course of a life, but even all at once”: The Multiple Self and Cultural Multiple Personality in Siri Hustvedt’s The Blazing World
  • Interview with Siri Hustvedt
  • “Deceiving the reader into the truth”: A Conversation with Siri Hustvedt about The Blazing World (2014)
  • List of Contributors

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