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Thinking on Thresholds: The Poetics of Transitive Spaces
Subha Mukherji
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Description for Thinking on Thresholds: The Poetics of Transitive Spaces
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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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Anthem Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783080731
SKU
V9781783080731
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99-15
About Subha Mukherji
Subha Mukherji is currently Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. She has worked extensively on the relation between law and literature in the Renaissance, and on interdisciplinarity more broadly.
Reviews for Thinking on Thresholds: The Poetics of Transitive Spaces
'The book immediately engages the reader with its flexibility and flare. Readers accustomed to academic books will be happily surprised by the freshness of these essays, which – almost without exception – combine the authority and depth of academic writing with the spirit of personal interest. It is most certainly a book for the general reader, as well as the ... Read more