The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language

by Gabriele Schwab

Book Overview

Gabriele Schwab revitalizes debates about literature's cultural function by exploring literary experience as an encounter with otherness. Drawing on literary theory, anthropology, and psychoanalysis, Schwab contends that literature facilitates contact with cultures that may seem foreign to us.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253330378
• ISBN13: 9780253330376
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"