02547nam a2200349 a 4500 ebr10523529 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 101208s2011 nyua sb 000 0 eng d 2010051141 9780857286659 (hardcover : alk. paper) 085728665X (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780857288523 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)779165304 PN56.S667 T55 2011eb 809/.99353 22 Thinking on thresholds [electronic resource] : the poetics of transitive spaces / edited by Subha Mukherji. New York : Anthem Press, 2011. xxviii, 223 p. : ill. (some col.) Includes bibliographical references. Introduction / Subha Mukherji -- Part I: Doors, windows, entries. Windows: looking in, looking out, breaking through / Gillian Beer; Permeable walls and off-stage spaces / Jean Chothia; The queer part doors play in Nabokov's Laughter in the dark / Beci Dobbin; Invasion from outer space: the threshold of annunciations / Subha Mukherji -- Part II: Lives and narratives, territories and worlds. Unsettling thresholds: Mignon and her afterlives / Terence Cave; Dangerous liaisons: desire and limit in The home and The world / Supriya Chaudhuri; Writing through osmotic borders: boundaries, liminality and language in Mehmet Yasin's poetics / Rosita D'Amora; Dancing and romancing: the obstacle of the beach and the threshold of the past / Jonathan Lamb -- Part III: Matter, mind, psyche. Remember me / Michael Witmore; Between sleep and waking: Montaigne, Keats and Proust / Jeremy Lane -- Part IV: reading, writing, playing, listening. Reading on the threshold / Jason Scott-Warren; When I begin I have already begun / Gabriel Josipovici; Thresholds in improvisation: freedom, the eternal present, and the death of jazz / Rick Foot; Thresholds of attention: on listening in literature / Angela Leighton. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Space in literature. Boundaries in literature. Liminality in literature. Electronic books. local Mukherji, Subha. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10523529 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 238771 238771