Spatial Liminality in Elizabeth Bowen’s Short Fiction
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Title: | Spatial Liminality in Elizabeth Bowen’s Short Fiction |
Author: | Miranda Acuña, Andrés |
Advisor: | Sacido Romero, Jorge |
Affiliation: | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Facultade de Filoloxía |
Subject: | Bowen, Elizabeth | Demon Lover and Other Stories, The | Liminality | Dimensión temporal | Dimensión espacial | Crítica literaria | Liminalidade | Spatial dimension | Temporal dimension | Literary criticism | |
Date of Issue: | 2017 |
Abstract: | This essay is devoted to the analysis of liminal spaces in Elizabeth Bowen‟s wartime short fiction. It pays special attention to three pieces collected in "The Demon Lover and Other Stories" (1945)in which liminal spatiality clearly determines characters and their actions.The concept of “liminality” was first coined in the field of anthropology to refer to people going through a transition from one state to another within the social structure — which is systematically arranged according to laws, customs, conventions and ceremonials — and express their ambiguous and indefinite attributes through a wide range of symbols in any given society where social and cultural transactions are ritualised the concept soon transcended the realm of anthropology and started to be used in literary criticism, among other things, for the “exploration of both temporal and spatial dimensions” Este ensaio está adicado á análise de espazos liminais na ficción curta de guerra de Elizabeth Bowen. Presta especial atención ás tres pezas recollidas en "The Demon Lover and Other Stories" (1945) nas que a espacialidade liminal determina claramente os personaxes e as súas accións. O concepto de "liminalidade" foi primeiro acuñado no campo da antropoloxía para referirse ás persoas que pasan por un a transición dun estado a outro dentro da estrutura social -que está organizada de forma sistemática segundo leis, costumes, convencións e cerimonias- e expresan os seus atributos ambiguos e indefinidos a través dunha ampla gama de símbolos en calquera sociedade en que as transaccións sociais e culturais sexan ritualizadas O concepto transcendeu pronto o ámbito da antropoloxía e comezou a utilizarse na crítica literaria, entre outras cousas, para a "exploración tanto das dimensións temporal como espacial". |
Description: | Traballo Fin de Grao en Filoloxía Inglesa. Curso 2016-2017 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10347/18319 |
Rights: | Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional |
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