Creating Communities: Towards a Description of the Mask-function in Literature

Nourit Melcer-Padon

Published by transcript Verlag 2018

Creating Communities

Towards a Description of the Mask-function in Literature

Nourit Melcer-Padon

In the series Lettre

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839441862

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About this book

How does historical reality interrelate with fiction? And how much are readers themselves involved in the workings of fictional literature? With innovative interpretations of various well-known texts, Nourit Melcer-Padon introduces the use of literary masks and illustrates literature's engagement of its readers' ethical judgement. She promotes a new perception of literary theory and of connections between thinkers such as Iser, Castoriadis, Sartre, Jung and Neumann. The book offers a unique view on the role of the community in post-existentialist modern cultural reality by emphasizing the importance of ritual practices in literature as a cultural manifestation.

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Nourit Melcer-Padon was awarded a PhD summa cum laude from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her interests range from literary theory to socio-historical studies, with special focus on the ambiguous relationship between fiction and historical reality. She lives in Jerusalem where she is the chair of the English department at the Hadassah Academic College and has been pursuing a post-doctoral research of 17th century Livorno at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Foreword: Literary Masks as Agents of Revelation and Formation of Collective Beliefs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Chapter One: The Double Function of Literary Masks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Chapter Two: The Creation of Personification Masks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Chapter Three: From Theater to Novel: Luigi Pirandello Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Chapter Four: Patrick White’s Theater Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 220
Keywords: History; Literary Masks; Reader-Response Criticism; Communities; Collective Imaginary; Collective Unconscious; Wolfgang Iser; Cornelius Castoriadis; Jean-Paul Sartre; Carl Gustav Jung; Johann Jakob Nathanael Neumann; Literature; General Literature Studies; Literary Studies

eBook

Published: May 27, 2018
ISBN: 9783839441862