Zones of focused ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt's works : interdisciplinary essays / edited by Johanna Hartmann, Christine Marks, and Hubert Zapf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hartmann, Johanna, editor.

Marks, Christine (Assistant professor), editor.

Zapf, Hubert, 1948- editor.

Series:

Buchreihe der Anglia ; Volume 52.

Buchreihe der ANGLIA, 0340-5435 ; Volume 52 = Anglia Book Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hustvedt, Siri--Criticism and interpretation.

Hustvedt, Siri.

Hustvedt, Siri--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (434 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection comprises essays from various interdisciplinary perspectives - e.g. literary scholarship, intermediality, art history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and medicine - to analyze and interpret the fictional and non-fictional works by Siri Hustvedt, an author whose reputation and public presence have been growing steadily in the 21st century and who is recognized as one of the most widely read and appreciated contemporary American writers. In her significance and stature as a public intellectual, she is not merely an American writer but a transnational, cosmopolitan author, who develops new forms not only of literary narrative but of interdisciplinary thought and writing, bringing together otherwise separated genres and branches of knowledge in a broad spectrum between literature and philosophy, historiography and art, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, narrative and medicine. The present volume is structured into the parts "Literary Creation and Communication," Psychoanalysis and Philosophy," "Medicine and Narrative," "Vision, Perception, and Power," and "Trauma, Memory, and the Ambiguities of Self" and closes with an interview of Siri Hustvedt by Susanne Becker in which Hustvedt elucidates her personal conception of her own creative processes of writing.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction / Hartmann, Johanna / Marks, Christine / Zapf, Hubert

Literary Creation and Communication

Why One Story and Not Another? / Hustvedt, Siri

The Rich Zones of Genre Borderlands: Siri Hustvedt's Art of Mingling / Rippl, Gabriele

Reality Bites: Fractured Narrative and Author-Reader Interaction in Siri Hustvedt's Work / Tappen-Scheuermann, Diana

"A carnival in hell": Representations of New York City in Siri Hustvedt's Novels / Rosenthal, Caroline

The Shaking Woman in the Media: Life Writing and Neuroscience / Hornung, Alfred

Psychoanalysis and Philosophy

The No Truth about Siri / Mélèse, Lucien

Siri's Timequakes / Davoine, Françoise

The Self Is a Moving Target: The Neuroscience of Siri Hustvedt's Artists / Tougaw, Jason

Dimensions of Tacit Knowledge and the Art(s) of Explication in Siri Hustvedt's Work / Lösch, Klaus / Paul, Heike

Wounding Words / Taylor, Mark C.

Medicine and Narrative

The Great Glazed Tank of Art: From the Real to the Imaginary with Siri Hustvedt / Charon, Rita

"No self is an island": Doctor-Patient Relationships in Siri Hustvedt's Work / Birkle, Carmen

Mysterious Illness and the Acceptance of Ambiguity / Bein, Britta

In Search of a Diagnosis: Siri Hustvedt's The Shaking Woman / Gelhaus, Petra

"The image makers": Reality Constitution and the Role of Autism in Siri Hustvedt's The Blazing World / Rohr, Susanne

Vision, Perception, and Power

"What fascinate me are the journeys that begin with looking and only looking": Siri Hustvedt's Visual Imagination / Schulz-Hoffmann, Carla

"I look and sometimes I see": The Art of Perception in Siri Hustvedt's Novels / Böger, Astrid

"Openings that can't be closed": Patterns of Surveillance Culture in Siri Hustvedt's Novels / Däwes, Birgit

Portraits of the (Post‐)Feminist Artist: Female Authorship and Authority in Siri Hustvedt's Fiction / Thiemann, Anna

Trauma, Memory, and the Ambiguities of Self

History and Trauma in Siri Hustvedt's The Sorrows of an American / Rabaté, Jean-Michel

Crisis of Knowledge: Trauma in The Sorrows of an American / Donn, Katharina

"The wounded psyche is not a broken leg": Illness, Injury, and Writing the Self in Siri Hustvedt's Work / Sarkowsky, Katja

Embodied Memories, Embodied Meanings: Mind, Matter, and Place in the Works of Siri Hustvedt / Schliephake, Christopher

"We have different selves over the course of a life, but even all at once": The Multiple Self and Cultural Multiple Personality in Siri Hustvedt's The Blazing World / Schwarz, Heike

Interview with Siri Hustvedt

"Deceiving the reader into the truth": A Conversation with Siri Hustvedt about The Blazing World (2014) / Becker, Susanne

List of Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110407761

3110407760

9783110407723

3110407728

OCLC:

953325623