Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language

by Gabriele Schwab

Book Overview

"The book not only confirms the high ethical stakes in informed contemporary reading; it offers a rare readerly pleasure in . . . exploring the wider cultural significance of gender and the body and their narrative representation." --Henry Sussman, SUNY-Buffalo

Gabriele Schwab revitalizes debates about literature's cultural function by exploring literary experience as an encounter with otherness. Drawing on literary theory, anthropology,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253210518
• ISBN13: 9780253210517
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"