Reading Into the Stars: Cosmopoetics in the Contemporary Novel

by Florian Klaeger

(Mis-)readings of the stars and our place in the cosmos have long been used as a metaphor for reading fictional worlds: to speak of 'reading into the stars' is to acknowledge that the stargazer instils the otherwise empty sidereal text with meaning of their own making. By contrasting this activity with novel-reading, the trope of astro-eisegesis raises questions about the nature, potential, and functions of fiction. This amounts to a self-reflexive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3825368904
• ISBN13: 9783825368906
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter
• Length: 479 Pages