By Johanna Hartmann,Christine Marks,Hubert Zapf

This assortment includes essays from a number of interdisciplinary views – e.g. literary scholarship, intermediality, artwork heritage, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and medication – to investigate and interpret the fictitious and non-fictional works by means of Siri Hustvedt, an writer whose attractiveness and public presence were becoming progressively within the twenty first century and who's well-known as probably the most largely learn and liked modern American writers. In her value and stature as a public highbrow, she isn't purely an American author yet a transnational, cosmopolitan writer, who develops new types not just of literary narrative yet of interdisciplinary notion and writing, bringing jointly another way separated genres and branches of data in a wide spectrum among literature and philosophy, historiography and paintings, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, narrative and drugs. the current quantity is dependent into the components “Literary construction and Communication,” Psychoanalysis and Philosophy,” “Medicine and Narrative,” “Vision, conception, and Power,” and “Trauma, reminiscence, and the Ambiguities of Self” and closes with an interview of Siri Hustvedt by means of Susanne Becker within which Hustvedt elucidates her own notion of her personal inventive procedures of writing.

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