Title The mirror and the killer-queen : otherness in literary language / Gabriele Schwab

Published Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, [1996] ©1996

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Description xxii, 212 pages ; 24 cm Series Theories of contemporary culture ; v. 18 Theories of contemporary culture ; v. 18 Contents 1. Reading, Otherness, and Cultural Contact -- 2. Nonsense and Metacommunication: Alice in Wonderland --3. Joyce, Cage, and Chaos: Finnegans Wake, Roaratorio, and French Feminism -- 4. Seduced by Witches: The Scarlet Letter -- 5. Carnival and Abjection: The Mother's Dead Body in As I Lay Dying -- 6. The Jungle and the Drawing Room: Urban Nomads in Nightwood -- 7. "While she lives she invites murder": The Malady of Death Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-205) and index Subject American fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. Difference (Psychology) in literature. Discourse analysis, Literary. English fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. Feminism and literature. Feminism and literature -- English-speaking countries. Gender identity in literature. Sex differences (Psychology) in literature. Women and literature -- English-speaking countries. Women and literature. LC no. 95031865 ISBN 0253210518 (pa : alk. paper) 0253330378 (cl : alk. paper)

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