Twins in Contemporary Literature and Culture - Look Twice

Informationen zum Autor JULIANA DE NOOY lectures in the contemporary studies program at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her first book, Derrida, Kristeva and the Dividing Line , compared influential poststructuralist conceptions of difference. Her research continues to focus on questions of identity and difference as they arise in narrative genres and in intercultural communication. Zusammenfassung Stories of twins are told with astonishing frequency in contemporary culture. Films and novels from recent decades repeatedly tell of the stranglehold of brotherly love, the evil twin who steals her sister's lover, the homicidal mutant twin, the reunion of twins separated at birth, warring twins, and confusion between look-alikes. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Look Twice: Narrative Uses of Twins Twins and the Couple: Surviving Sameness in Novels of Twin Lives Twins and Sexual Rivalry: Recasting the Wicked Sister in Thriller Films; with B.Statham Twins and the 'Crisis of Masculinity': Patterns in Body Horror Cinema; with B.Statham Twins and the 'Gay Gene' Debate: When Queer Comic Fiction meets Behaviour Genetics Twins and Nations: Tales of Cultural Divides Twins as Doubtful Doubles: Postmodern Identity, Irony and Invention Conclusion: Twins and Problems of Representation Afterword Notes Bibliography Filmography Index

Product details

• Authors: Juliana De Nooy, Juliana De Nooy
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2005
• EAN: 9781403947451
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-4745-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Contemporary Literature, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature, Modern—21st century, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Fiction and Related items, Comic;culture;fiction;identity;Narrative;novel