The Semiotics of Exile in Literature
Author | : H. Zeng |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2010-09-27 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780230113114 |
ISBN-13 | : 0230113117 |
Rating | : 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Semiotics of Exile in Literature written by H. Zeng and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.