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...
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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. Hong Zeng is an assistant professor of Chinese language, literature, and film at Carleton College. These essays offer a unique comparison of literature of exile, exile not only in the sense of geographical dislocation, but also cultural and psychological uprootedness. Examining the semiotics of exile, this book draws new conclusions on the semantics of photography, the constituent value of tragedy, prototypes of artists, and the construction of female mythos. Here, Hong Zeng makes a fresh contribution to the scholarship of individual writers and to the field of comparative literature at large
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Semiotics of Exile in Photography; 2 Poetics of Exile; 3 Semiotics of Exile in Tragedy; 4 E'criture Feminine and the Semiotics of Exile; 5 Cosmic Exile and the Fourth Dimension in Escher, Borges, and Proust; 6 Artist in Exile: Divinely and Demoniacally Possessed; Notes; Bibliography; Index
