Creating Communities : : Towards a Description of the Mask-function in Literature / / Nourit Melcer-Padon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2018 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Melcer-Padon, Nourit,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Lettre
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Foreword: Literary Masks as Agents of Revelation and Formation of Collective Beliefs --; Chapter One: The Double Function of Literary Masks --; Chapter Two: The Creation of Personification Masks --; Chapter Three: From Theater to Novel: Luigi Pirandello --; Chapter Four: Patrick White’s Theater --; Chapter Five: White’s Tour de Force: Memoirs of Many in One --; Chapter Six: Conclusion --; Bibliography
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839441862; 9783110766677; 9783110719550; 9783110604252; 9783110603255; 9783110604184; 9783110603187; 9783110661545
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839441862?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Nourit Melcer-Padon.

How does historical reality interrelate with fiction? And how much are readers themselves involved in the workings of fictional literature? With innovative interpretations of various well-known texts, Nourit Melcer-Padon introduces the use of literary masks and illustrates literature's engagement of its readers' ethical judgement. She promotes a new perception of literary theory and of connections between thinkers such as Iser, Castoriadis, Sartre, Jung and Neumann. The book offers a unique view on the role of the community in post-existentialist modern cultural reality by emphasizing the importance of ritual practices in literature as a cultural manifestation.