| Description |
xviii, 198 : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Look twice : narrative uses of twins -- 2. Twins and the couple : surviving sameness in novels of twin lives -- 3. Twins and sexual rivalry : recasting the wicked sister in thriller films / Juliana De Nooy and Bronwyn Statham -- 4. Twins and the 'crisis of masculinity' : patterns in body horror cinema / Juliana De Nooy and Bronwyn Statham -- 5. Twins and the 'gay gene' debate : when queer comic fiction meets behaviour genetics -- 6. Twins and nations : tales of cultural divides -- 7. Twins as doubtful doubles : postmodern identity, irony and inevention -- 8. Conclusion : twins and problems of representation |
| Summary |
"Stories of twins are told with astonishing frequency in contemporary culture. Films and novels from recent decades repeatedly tell of the stranglehold of brotherly love, the evil twin who steals her sister's lover, the homicidal mutant twin on a rampage, the reunion of twins separated at birth, twins divided by national borders, and confusion between look-alike twins. Critics tend to view twin tales as a subset of the literature of the double, in decline since the nineteenth century. A closer look at recent examples, however, reveals patterns of genre and gender quite specific to our time. Why do we keep telling twin tales? And how are we telling them differently from previous generations? Twins in Contemporary Literature and Culture analyses some contemporary story-telling conventions and what is at stake in attempts to shift them."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Twins in literature.
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Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Twins in motion pictures.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| LC no. |
2004066394 |
| ISBN |
1403947457 |
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