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1 online resource (xv, 240 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Aleksandra Nikcevic Batricevic and Marija Knezevic -- The Merchant of Venice and the problem of Shylock / Peter Preston -- Psychoanalysis in the works of modernists : from theory to fantasy (H. Read and D.H. Lawrence) / Marina Ragachewskaya -- A shift in Joyces idea of epiphany in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man : on the borders of (post)modernism / Vanja Vukicevic -- Trespassing or trespassed against : autobiographical border crossings / Vesna Lopicic -- On the borders of storytelling : do unconventional beginnings lead to (un)conventional endings? / Mirjana Danicic -- Writing closure / Aleksandra V. Jovanovic -- Crime pays off : conventions of the crime genre and crime against it / Jasna Poljak Rehlicki -- Deconstruction of dialogue in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho / Monika Kavalir -- Critique and reinvention of the novel : Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five / Goran Radonjic -- The flouting of social convention and rules in the stories of Reymond Carver and Haruki Murakami / Sandra Josipovic -- On the edge of meaning : Native American sanctuary of words / Marija Knezevic -- "Custom, Tyrant Custom" : reason and utopia in Mary Astell's A Serious Proposal to the Ladies / Manuela D'Amore -- Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's borders of convention / Radojka Vukcevic -- Constructing gender through language in the works of Raymond Carver / Ksenija First -- Beyond conventions : the modernist and humanistic vision of Isadora Duncan as a revolutionary dancer and choreographer / Jeanine Belgodere -- Peyton Place and the boundaries of sexual discourse in 1950s U.S.A. / John Spurlock -- Beur is the new black : minor and major, canonicity and community in the New France / Rosemary Peters -- Transgression as a rule? The paradoxical role of genre painting in the formation of a national identity in the United States / Marie Leuliet -- Walt an idiot : graffiti as anti-boundary / Jim Phelps -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
The research presented in this book is authored by scholars coming from as distant regions as South Africa, the United States of America, Great Britain, France, Italy, Belarus, the Balkans. Needless to say that one of the good things about this international cooperation is that owing to their different socio-cultural backgrounds, these scholars have contributed to producing an extremely varied picture of ways of approaching the challenge of a changing world. The papers on literature and culture collected in this book contribute a further element of rigour into the discussion of numerous and always varying and changing borders of convention in a literary text, literary genre, and literary theory, as well as in general culture and everyday paths of life. Starting with oral cultures, over the classic literary masters, modernist and postmodernist textual and theoretical phenomena, the twentieth century flouting of numerous social and gender convention, through painting, film, dance, contemporary music, as well as graffiti, We have sought to stress that what is most noticeable from the evidence of their studies is that scholars today concern these issues through a dynamic global process and beyond any preconceived design, or any strict set of theoretical prescriptions, which would otherwise lead them to ignore the ever-shifting borders in literature and culture, as well as in global socio-cultural reality in general. The variety and complexity of these essays offer fresh views to the problem posed in the title of the book. Therefore, we trust that they will stimulate intellectual confrontation and circulation of ideas within the field of literature and cultural studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Literature and society.
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Culture in literature.
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Literature & literary studies.
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Cultural studies.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Culture in literature
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Literature and society
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Künste -- Motiv -- Grenze -- Kongressbericht.
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Grenze -- Motiv -- Künste -- Kongressbericht.
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Konvention.
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Grenzüberschreitung.
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Literatur.
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Künste.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nikčević-Batrićević, Aleksandra, editor.
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Knežević, Marija, 1963- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781443822435 |
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1443822434 |
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9781282776500 |
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1282776509 |
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