Other worlds and the narrative construction of otherness

Other worlds and the narrative construction of otherness
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Publisher : Mimesis
Total Pages : 343
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ISBN-10 : 9788869771491
ISBN-13 : 8869771490
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Download or read book Other worlds and the narrative construction of otherness written by Esterino Adami and published by Mimesis. This book was released on 2017-10-10T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers collected in this volume deal with the explorations of Science Fiction, Fantasy and, more generally, the representation of otherness through the narrative construction of fantastic, imaginary, appalling or attractive places, stories and figures. Contributions are arranged in four main sections. The first section (Other spaces, new worlds) deals with Hindi and Arabic Science Fiction. The second section (Constructing forms of otherness) analyses the narrative and psychological mechanisms that give forms to a stereotype or archetypical image of the threatening Other. The third section ((Re)shaping style(s), language(s) and discourse(s) of otherness) is centred on the idea of language as a tool to build up styles, genres and texts, and literature as an escape from disappointing history and a cross-cultural wandering space of narrative ghosts. The fourth section (Circulating fearful otherness) tests the limits and heuristic potential of a philological approach in reconstructing the wide circulation of motifs and characters from antiquity to (post-)modernity.


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