edited by Julie Scanlon and Amy Waste ; with contributions by Terry Eagleton and Sally Shuttleworth.
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Sheffield, Eng. :
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Sheffield Academic Press,
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2001.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (220 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.
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Popular Cosmology as Mythic Narrative: A Site for Interdisciplinary ExchangeTranslation 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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.