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Creating Communities Towards a Description of the Mask-function in Literature Nourit Melcer-Padon
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melcer-Padon, Nourit <p>Nourit Melcer-Padon, Hebrew University and Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem, Israel</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
- Lettre
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fiction.
- History.
- Literary Masks.
- Reader-Response Criticism.
- Communities.
- Collective Imaginary.
- Collective Unconscious.
- Wolfgang Iser.
- Cornelius Castoriadis.
- Jean-Paul Sartre.
- Carl Gustav Jung.
- Johann Jakob Nathanael Neumann.
- Literature.
- General Literature Studies.
- Literary Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Literary Masks.
- Reader-Response Criticism.
- Communities.
- Collective Imaginary.
- Collective Unconscious.
- Wolfgang Iser.
- Cornelius Castoriadis.
- Jean-Paul Sartre.
- Carl Gustav Jung.
- Johann Jakob Nathanael Neumann.
- Literature.
- General Literature Studies.
- Literary Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Melcer-Padon, Creating Communities Towards a Description of the Mask-function in Literature
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2018
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Nourit Melcer-Padon was awarded a PhD summa cum laude from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her interests range from literary theory to socio-historical studies, with special focus on the ambiguous relationship between fiction and historical reality. She lives in Jerusalem where she is the chair of the English department at the Hadassah Academic College and has been pursuing a post-doctoral research of 17th century Livorno at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- Summary:
- How does historical reality interrelate with fiction? And how much are readers themselves involved in the workings of fictional literature? With innovative interpretations of various well-known texts, Nourit Melcer-Padon introduces the use of literary masks and illustrates literature's engagement of its readers' ethical judgement. She promotes a new perception of literary theory and of connections between thinkers such as Iser, Castoriadis, Sartre, Jung and Neumann. The book offers a unique view on the role of the community in post-existentialist modern cultural reality by emphasizing the importance of ritual practices in literature as a cultural manifestation.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Foreword: Literary Masks as Agents of Revelation and Formation of Collective Beliefs 9 Chapter One: The Double Function of Literary Masks 13 Chapter Two: The Creation of Personification Masks 35 Chapter Three: From Theater to Novel: Luigi Pirandello 59 Chapter Four: Patrick White's Theater 101 Chapter Five: White's Tour de Force: Memoirs of Many in One 143 Chapter Six: Conclusion 189 Bibliography 209
- ISBN:
- 9783732841868
- 3732841863
- 9783839441862
- 3839441862
- OCLC:
- 1037818413
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