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Mapping Liminalities - Thresholds in Cultural and Literary Texts (Paperback)
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Mapping Liminalities - Thresholds in Cultural and Literary Texts (Paperback)
Series: Transatlantic Aesthetics and Culture, 2
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The essays in this book offer new perspectives on the concept of
liminality. They explore the relevance and significance of the
limen or threshold from a variety of critical and theoretical
perspectives, and across a broad range of historical periods. The
authors all seek to revisit key questions raised in recent literary
and cultural criticism, whilst also moving that discussion in new
directions. In particular, the essays stress the importance of
defining liminality for particular literary and cultural contexts,
and highlight the fact that whilst it is liberating and progressive
in some instances, in others it is violent and oppressive.
Examining texts from the early modern to the postmodern periods, by
authors on both sides of the Atlantic, the volume embraces a wide
range of literary forms, including novels, travel narratives,
religious texts, and philosophical treatises; it also includes
consideration of non-literary forms of representation such as
photography. This book reveals the complexity of the concept of
liminality, and underscores its powerfulness and potential for
understanding the ways in which both individuals and communities,
in the past and in the present day, negotiate states of transition,
and give expression to their experience of being 'in-between'.
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