Landscapes of Liminality expands upon existing notions of spatial practice and spatial theory, and examines more intricately the contingent notion of "liminality" as a space of "in-between-ness" that avoids either essentialism or stasis, as well as the role of interstitiality in delineating between space and place.
Landscapes of Liminality expands upon existing notions of spatial practice and spatial theory, and examines more intricately the contingent notion of "liminality" as a space of "in-between-ness" that avoids either essentialism or stasis, as well as the role of interstitiality in delineating between space and place.
Dara Downey is an Associate Lecturer in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, and a Trinity Access Programme tutor. She is the author of American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age (Palgrave, 2014), editor of The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, and Vice Chair of the Irish Association for American Studies. Ian Kinane is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton, where he teaches popular genre fiction, postcolonial literatures, and children's literature. He is the author of Theorising Literary Islands: The Island Trope in Contemporary Robinsonade Narratives (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) and editor of Didactics and the Modern Robinsonade: New Paradigms for Young Readers (Liverpool University Press, 2018). Ian is currently writing a monograph in British-Jamaica cultural relations in Ian Fleming's Jamaica-set James Bond novels, and he is the editor of the peer-review, open-access International Journal of James Bond Studies. Elizabeth Parker is a Teaching Fellow in Contemporary and Popular Literature at the University of Birmingham. She is currently working on her first monograph The Gothic Forest: Deep Dark Woods in the Popular Imagination. She is the TV editor of The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies and is the co-founder of the upcoming journal Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic.
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Foreword: "A Utopia of the In-Between" or Limning the Liminal Robert T. Tally Jr / Introduction: Locating Liminality: Space Place and the In-Between Dara Downey Ian Kinane and Elizabeth Parker / Section One: Liminal Spaces and Places / 1. Close Listening: Urban Soundscapes in Ulysses Manhattan Transfer and Berlin Alexanderplatz Annika Eisenberg / 2. "Cities of the Insane": The Asylum as Ruin in Recent American Horror Narratives Bernice M. Murphy / 3. In Between Days: Domestic Liminality in the Work of Aideen Barry Tracy Fahey / 4. Victorian Fireside Storytelling: Christmas Ritual and Liminality in Round the Fire: Six Stories Kate Forrester / 5. "Weren't all true nomads at their happiest in limbo?": Hauntings in Non-Places in Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black and Nicola Barker's Darkmans Kathryn Bird / Section Two: Liminal Identities / 6. Figures in a Foreign Landscape: Aspects of Liminality in Shaun Tan's The Arrival Melanie Otto / 7. Liminal Identities of Migrant Groups: The Old Russian Believers of Romania Cristina Clopot / 8. "Tinkers" "Itinerants" "Travellers": Liminality and Irish Traveller Identity Noelle Mann / 9. High Heels and Hard Men: The Liminal Process of Becoming a Warrior Mark Doyle / 10. Letters of Liminality: Print Texts as Spaces of Transgressive Desire in Thomas Hardy's "On the Western Circuit" Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou / Notes on Contributors/ Index
Foreword: "A Utopia of the In-Between" or Limning the Liminal Robert T. Tally Jr / Introduction: Locating Liminality: Space Place and the In-Between Dara Downey Ian Kinane and Elizabeth Parker / Section One: Liminal Spaces and Places / 1. Close Listening: Urban Soundscapes in Ulysses Manhattan Transfer and Berlin Alexanderplatz Annika Eisenberg / 2. "Cities of the Insane": The Asylum as Ruin in Recent American Horror Narratives Bernice M. Murphy / 3. In Between Days: Domestic Liminality in the Work of Aideen Barry Tracy Fahey / 4. Victorian Fireside Storytelling: Christmas Ritual and Liminality in Round the Fire: Six Stories Kate Forrester / 5. "Weren't all true nomads at their happiest in limbo?": Hauntings in Non-Places in Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black and Nicola Barker's Darkmans Kathryn Bird / Section Two: Liminal Identities / 6. Figures in a Foreign Landscape: Aspects of Liminality in Shaun Tan's The Arrival Melanie Otto / 7. Liminal Identities of Migrant Groups: The Old Russian Believers of Romania Cristina Clopot / 8. "Tinkers" "Itinerants" "Travellers": Liminality and Irish Traveller Identity Noelle Mann / 9. High Heels and Hard Men: The Liminal Process of Becoming a Warrior Mark Doyle / 10. Letters of Liminality: Print Texts as Spaces of Transgressive Desire in Thomas Hardy's "On the Western Circuit" Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou / Notes on Contributors/ Index
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