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Chapter by Beci Dobbin on Nabokov's "Laughter in the Dark"
Thinking on Thresholds The Poetics of Transitive Spaces TEST
Edited by Subha Mukherji - Through a combination of case studies and theoretical investigations, the essays in this book address the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive space in literature and art. Imprint: Anthem Press Hardback ISBN 9780857286659
February 2011
"Why does the position of the threshold exert such a compelling hold on our imaginative lives? Why is it a resonant space? Why is it so urgently the place of writing - the place where one may remain, avoid speaking or naming, yet speak from? Through a combination of case studies and theoretical investigations, this book addresses these questions and speaks to the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive space in literature and art."
Table of Contents
Introduction - Subha Mukherji; Part One: Doors, Windows, Entries; 1. Windows: Looking In, Looking Out, Breaking Through - Gillian Beer; 2. 'Zero.Zero.and Zero': Permeable Walls and Off-stage Spaces - Jean Chothia; 3. 'The Queer Part Doors Play' in Nabokov's 'Laughter in the Dark' - Beci Dobbin; 4. 'Invasion from Outer Space': The Threshold of Annunciations - Subha Mukherji; Part Two: Lives and Narratives, Territories and Worlds; 5. Unsettling Thresholds: Mignon and Her Afterlives - Terence Cave; 6. Dangerous Liaisons: Desire and Limit in 'The Home and the World' - Supriya Chaudhuri; 7. Writing Through Osmotic Borders: Boundaries, Liminality and Language in Mehmet Yashin's Poetics - Rosita D'Amora; 8. Dancing and Romancing: The Obstacle of the Beach and the Threshold of the Past - Jonathan Lamb; Part Three: Matter, Mind, Psyche; 9. 'Remember Me' - Michael Witmore; 10. Between Sleep and Waking: Montaigne, Keats and Proust - Jeremy Lane; Part Four: Reading, Writing, Playing, Listening; 11. Reading on the Threshold - Jason Scott-Warren; 12. When I Begin I have Already Begun - Gabriel Josipovici; 13. Thresholds in Improvisation: Freedom, the Eternal Present, and the Death of Jazz - Rick Foot; 14. Thresholds of Attention: On Listening in Literature - Angela Leighton; Select Bibliography (including Discography)
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Thinking on Thresholds The Poetics of Transitive Spaces TEST
Edited by Subha Mukherji - Through a combination of case studies and theoretical investigations, the essays in this book address the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive space in literature and art. Imprint: Anthem Press Hardback ISBN 9780857286659
February 2011
"Why does the position of the threshold exert such a compelling hold on our imaginative lives? Why is it a resonant space? Why is it so urgently the place of writing - the place where one may remain, avoid speaking or naming, yet speak from? Through a combination of case studies and theoretical investigations, this book addresses these questions and speaks to the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive space in literature and art."
Table of Contents
Introduction - Subha Mukherji; Part One: Doors, Windows, Entries; 1. Windows: Looking In, Looking Out, Breaking Through - Gillian Beer; 2. 'Zero.Zero.and Zero': Permeable Walls and Off-stage Spaces - Jean Chothia; 3. 'The Queer Part Doors Play' in Nabokov's 'Laughter in the Dark' - Beci Dobbin; 4. 'Invasion from Outer Space': The Threshold of Annunciations - Subha Mukherji; Part Two: Lives and Narratives, Territories and Worlds; 5. Unsettling Thresholds: Mignon and Her Afterlives - Terence Cave; 6. Dangerous Liaisons: Desire and Limit in 'The Home and the World' - Supriya Chaudhuri; 7. Writing Through Osmotic Borders: Boundaries, Liminality and Language in Mehmet Yashin's Poetics - Rosita D'Amora; 8. Dancing and Romancing: The Obstacle of the Beach and the Threshold of the Past - Jonathan Lamb; Part Three: Matter, Mind, Psyche; 9. 'Remember Me' - Michael Witmore; 10. Between Sleep and Waking: Montaigne, Keats and Proust - Jeremy Lane; Part Four: Reading, Writing, Playing, Listening; 11. Reading on the Threshold - Jason Scott-Warren; 12. When I Begin I have Already Begun - Gabriel Josipovici; 13. Thresholds in Improvisation: Freedom, the Eternal Present, and the Death of Jazz - Rick Foot; 14. Thresholds of Attention: On Listening in Literature - Angela Leighton; Select Bibliography (including Discography)
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Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
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Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
Manage subscription options: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/