Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works: Interdisciplinary Essays

Published by De Gruyter 2016

Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works

Interdisciplinary Essays

Edited by: Johanna Hartmann , Christine Marks and Hubert Zapf

Volume 52 in the series Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110407723

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About this book

This collection comprises essays from various interdisciplinary perspectives – e.g. literary scholarship, intermediality, art history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and medicine – to analyze and interpret the fictional and non-fictional works by Siri Hustvedt, an author whose reputation and public presence have been growing steadily in the 21st century and who is recognized as one of the most widely read and appreciated contemporary American writers. In her significance and stature as a public intellectual, she is not merely an American writer but a transnational, cosmopolitan author, who develops new forms not only of literary narrative but of interdisciplinary thought and writing, bringing together otherwise separated genres and branches of knowledge in a broad spectrum between literature and philosophy, historiography and art, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, narrative and medicine. The present volume is structured into the parts “Literary Creation and Communication,” Psychoanalysis and Philosophy,” “Medicine and Narrative,” “Vision, Perception, and Power,” and “Trauma, Memory, and the Ambiguities of Self” and closes with an interview of Siri Hustvedt by Susanne Becker in which Hustvedt elucidates her personal conception of her own creative processes of writing.

First comprehensive collection on Siri Hustvedt
Variety of theoretical and conceptual approaches
Brings together European and US-American scholarship on Siri Hustvedt / contemporary American literature

Author / Editor information

Johanna Hartmann, University of Augsburg, Germany; Christine Marks, CUNY, New York, USA; Hubert Zapf, University of Augsburg, Germany.

Reviews

"It is an excellent introduction to her writing for students and scholars of contemporary writing, which will hopefully find its way onto more academic programmes in the US, UK and Europe. As this volume proves, it certainly deserves to be. At long last, we have an academic study worthy of the association with her work."
Alexander Williamson in: Anglia 2017; 135(1): 234–238

"Overall, this is a fascinating and vastly enlightening collection of interdisciplinary essays on an internationally renowned author whose popularity and reputation is increasing steadily."
Diana Wagner in: Amerikastudien / American Studies 63.1 (2018)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Johanna Hartmann, Christine Marks and Hubert Zapf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Literary Creation and Communication
Why One Story and Not Another? Siri Hustvedt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
The Rich Zones of Genre Borderlands: Siri Hustvedt’s Art of Mingling Gabriele Rippl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Reality Bites: Fractured Narrative and Author-Reader Interaction in Siri Hustvedt’s Work Diana Tappen-Scheuermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
“A carnival in hell”: Representations of New York City in Siri Hustvedt’s Novels Caroline Rosenthal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
The Shaking Woman in the Media: Life Writing and Neuroscience Alfred Hornung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
The No Truth about Siri Lucien Mélèse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Siri’s Timequakes Françoise Davoine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
The Self Is a Moving Target: The Neuroscience of Siri Hustvedt’s Artists Jason Tougaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Dimensions of Tacit Knowledge and the Art(s) of Explication in Siri Hustvedt’s Work Klaus Lösch and Heike Paul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Wounding Words Mark C. Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Medicine and Narrative
The Great Glazed Tank of Art: From the Real to the Imaginary with Siri Hustvedt Rita Charon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
“No self is an island”: Doctor-Patient Relationships in Siri Hustvedt’s Work Carmen Birkle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Mysterious Illness and the Acceptance of Ambiguity Britta Bein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
In Search of a Diagnosis: Siri Hustvedt’s The Shaking Woman Petra Gelhaus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
“The image makers”: Reality Constitution and the Role of Autism in Siri Hustvedt’s The Blazing World Susanne Rohr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Vision, Perception, and Power
“What fascinate me are the journeys that begin with looking and only looking”: Siri Hustvedt’s Visual Imagination Carla Schulz-Hoffmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
“I look and sometimes I see”: The Art of Perception in Siri Hustvedt’s Novels Astrid Böger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
“Openings that can’t be closed”: Patterns of Surveillance Culture in Siri Hustvedt’s Novels Birgit Däwes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Portraits of the (Post‐)Feminist Artist: Female Authorship and Authority in Siri Hustvedt’s Fiction Anna Thiemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Trauma, Memory, and the Ambiguities of Self
History and Trauma in Siri Hustvedt’s The Sorrows of an American Jean-Michel Rabaté Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
Crisis of Knowledge: Trauma in The Sorrows of an American Katharina Donn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
“The wounded psyche is not a broken leg”: Illness, Injury, and Writing the Self in Siri Hustvedt’s Work Katja Sarkowsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Embodied Memories, Embodied Meanings: Mind, Matter, and Place in the Works of Siri Hustvedt Christopher Schliephake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
“We have different selves over the course of a life, but even all at once”: The Multiple Self and Cultural Multiple Personality in Siri Hustvedt’s The Blazing World Heike Schwarz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Interview with Siri Hustvedt
“Deceiving the reader into the truth”: A Conversation with Siri Hustvedt about The Blazing World (2014) Susanne Becker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Literary and Cultural Studies), Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 425
Keywords: Siri Hustvedt; Contemporary Literature; American Literature; Interdisciplinary Humanities

eBook

Published: May 10, 2016
ISBN: 9783110407723

Hardcover

Published: May 10, 2016
ISBN: 9783110407709

Paperback

Published: November 7, 2017
ISBN: 9783110578690