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Stories of twins are told with astonishing frequency in contemporary culture. Films and novels from recent decades repeatedly tell of the stranglehold of brotherly love, the evil twin who steals her sister's lover, the homicidal mutant twin, the reunion of twins separated at birth, warring twins, and confusion between look-alikes. Twins in Contemporary Literature and Culture asks why we keep telling twin tales and how these have been transformed in recent retellings to reflect the preoccupations of the times.
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JULIANA DE NOOY lectures in the contemporary studies program at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her first book, Derrida, Kristeva and the Dividing Line, compared influential poststructuralist conceptions of difference. Her research continues to focus on questions of identity and difference as they arise in narrative genres and in intercultural communication.
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Book Title: Twins in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Book Subtitle: Look Twice
Authors: Juliana Nooy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230286863
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-4745-1Published: 21 June 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28686-3Published: 21 June 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 198
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Cultural Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, Contemporary Literature