Twins in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Look Twice

ISBN-13: 9781403947451 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 220 str.

Juliana de Nooy

Opis

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. Twins in Contemporary Literature and Culture asks why we keep telling twin tales and how these have been transformed in recent retellings to reflect the preoccupations of the times.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.