Challenging the boundaries / / edited by Isil Bas and Donald C. Freeman for the Poetics and Linguistics Association.

• Superior document: PALA, 2
• Author: Poetics and Linguistics Association. Conference
• TeilnehmendeR: Bas, Isl.; Freeman, Donald C., 1938-; Poetics and Linguistics Association. Conference
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: PALA (Series) ; 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Notes: International conference proceedings.

Challenging the Boundaries seeks to transcend the limits of literary genres and national cultures, exploring both old and new frontiers in language and literature from an interdisciplinary, multifaceted, and challenging perspective. Selected from the pathbreaking Istanbul conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association, these papers treat topics ranging from contemporary neurobiology’s insights into the sources of poetic creativity to the cultural theories of Michel Foucault and Hélène Cixous and their literary consequences; from the films of the American director David Lynch to those of the Senegalese artist Djibril Diop Mambéty; from the work of the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk to James Joyce’s Ulysses and the stories of Virginia Woolf. This volume will be of particular interest to readers who might wish to become acquainted with the work of able young scholars from an exceptionally wide array of academic cultures and theoretical commitments. The authors whose essays appear in Challenging the Boundaries reflect in their approaches and subjects both the breadth and depth of the international academic community. PALA Papers is a series of volumes comprising essays selected and edited from presentations at the annual conferences of the Poetics and Linguistics Association , an international body of scholars whose work focuses on the interdisciplinary nexus of linguistics, discourse theory, and literary analysis, criticism, and theory. Each volume will present studies that provide models to scholars throughout the world for conducting their own research in this multidisciplinary paradigm on such topics as, among many others, close linguistic analysis of canonical literary works, corpus-based studies of literary narrative, and the linguistic basis of contemporary social and cultural theory.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- The Exploitation of Meaning: Literary Text and Local Grammars / John Sinclair -- The ‘not-me in thee’: Crossing Boundaries Through Literature / Willie van Peer -- Foucault: Explorer of the Limitless Reign of the Limits / Daniel Defert -- Vatic Craft: The Science and Poetics of Perception / Sharon Lattig -- Grand Principles of Narratology / Henrik Schärfe -- The Ottoman Phenomenon and Edward Said’s Monolithic Discourse on the Orient / Esin Akalın -- The Stylistic Dialogue of East and West in Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle / Dilek Kantar -- Logical/Textual Space vs. Physical Space: Same or Different? / Elżbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska -- Winding Through Lynchville Highway: Challenging the Curves of David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive / Ayşegül Gündoğdu -- The Boundaries of Narrative: The Problems, Possibilities, and Politics of Accommodating the Lyric Mode in Narrative Fiction / Nil Korkut -- Engaging the Other in the Self: The Bodily Experience of Virtual Imagery / Binnie Brook Martin -- What Can Literature Do for Linguistics? Metaphorical Synonymy and Distant Cohesion in James Joyce’s Ulysses / Nina Nørgaard -- Humpty Dumpty’s Fall: Failing to See the Writing on the Wall / Hande Tekdemir -- Crossing the Boundaries of Flesh and Narrative / Fiona Tomkinson -- Bibliography -- Index.