The Semiotics of Exile in Literature

Zeng, H.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2010-10-18

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230104471

DOI: 10.1057/9780230113114

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 179