Literature and Fascination

Sibylle Baumbach (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

318 Seiten

2014 | 2015 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-56516-0 (ISBN)

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Exploring literary fascination as a key concept of aesthetic attraction, this book illuminates the ways in which literary texts are designed, presented, and received. Detailed case studies include texts by William Shakespeare, S.T. Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Don DeLillo, and Ian McEwan.

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Literature and Fascination 2. The Power of Magic and the Fear of Contamination: Fascination in Early (Modern) Literature 3. Facing the Femme Fatale: The Poetics of Seduction and the Fascination with Storytelling 4. The Spark of Inspiration: Mesmerism, Electrifying Fiction, and Gothic Fascination 5. The Anxiety of Influence: Fascination with the Self and the Other 6. The Gorgon Gazes Back: Contemporary Fascination 7. The Journey Ahead: Medusamorphic Perspectives Bibliography Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Aesthetics • attention • Cognitive Poetics • cognitive science • Emotions • Fascination • Femme fatale • Gaze • literary attraction • Literary Theory • Literature • Medusa • Medusa effect • Narrative theory • Narratology • petrifaction • Poetics • reader response • Repulsion • Stylistics
ISBN-10	1-349-56516-4 / 1349565164
ISBN-13	978-1-349-56516-0 / 9781349565160
Zustand	Neuware