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Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Processes of embodiment and the spatialization of interior categories such as thought and memory are defining characteristics of Paul Auster's novels, essays, and poetry, and a brief survey of these aspects can offer a new perspective on Auster's oeuvre as an organic whole. It is the underlying assumption of this paper that the transformation of interior into exterior constitutes a specific instance of the transpositional processes discussed therein. Within the theoretical framework of cultural studies -- as opposed to the more narrowly defined literary studies -- such transformations can be regarded as processes of embodiment, that is to say the process of making physical, if only temporarily, that which is normally without a body. In order to establish a point of departure for a more general analysis of the embodiment of interiority in Auster's writing, I will initially focus on the roads and streets in his work before analyzing the embodiment of his poetics as such.
Repository Citation
Rheindorf, Markus. "Processes of Embodiment and Spatialization in the Writings of Paul Auster." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 2, no. 3, 2002, pp. 1–19. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol2/iss3/17
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