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The Semiotics of Exile in Literature /

Furthering the scholarship on writers and artists as diverse as Lord Byron, Edvard Munch, Sylvia Plath, and Jorge Luis Borges, Zeng probes the semiotics of exile.  In artistic traditions the world over, exile exerts a potent and complex mythmaking power - whether it is manifest as a geographical dis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zeng, Hong (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Subjects:
Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
European Literature.
Literary History.
Literary Theory.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Semiotics.
British literature.
European literature.
Literature > History and criticism.
Literature > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Furthering the scholarship on writers and artists as diverse as Lord Byron, Edvard Munch, Sylvia Plath, and Jorge Luis Borges, Zeng probes the semiotics of exile.  In artistic traditions the world over, exile exerts a potent and complex mythmaking power - whether it is manifest as a geographical dislocation or as a sense of cultural or psychological alienation.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 179 pages)
ISBN:9780230113114
DOI:10.1057/9780230113114