Table of Contents
Introduction Johanna Hartmann Christine Marks Hubert Zapf 1
Literary Creation and Communication
Why One Story and Not Another? Siri Hustvedt 11
The Rich Zones of Genre Borderlands: Siri Hustvedt's Art of Mingling Gabriele Rippl 27
Reality Bites: Fractured Narrative and Author-Reader Interaction in Siri Hustvedt's Work Diana Tappen-Scheuermann 39
"A carnival in hell": Representations of New York City in Siri Hustvedt's Novels Caroline Rosenthal 51
The Shaking Woman in the Media: Life Writing and Neuroscience Alfred Hornung 67
Psychoanalysis and Philosophy
The No Truth about Siri Lucien Mélèse 83
Siri's Timequakes Francoise Davoine 99
The Self Is a Moving Target: The Neuroscience of Siri Hustvedt's Artists Jason Tougaw 113
Dimensions of Tacit Knowledge and the Art(s) of Explication in Siri Hustvedt's Work Klaus Lösch Heike Paul 133
Wounding Words Mark C. Taylor 153
Medicine and Narrative
The Great Glazed Tank of Art: From the Real to the Imaginary with Siri Hustvedt Rita Charon 185
"NO self is an island": Doctor-Patient Relationships in Siri Hustvedt's Work Carmen Birkle 193
Mysterious Illness and the Acceptance of Ambiguity Britta Bein 225
In Search of a Diagnosis: Siri Hustvedt's The Shaking Woman Petra Gelhaus 237
"The image makers": Reality Constitution and the Role OF Autism in Siri Hustvedt's The Blazing World Susanne Rohr 249
Vision, Perception, and Power
"What fascinate me are the journeys that begin with looking and only looking": Siri Hustvedt's Visual Imagination Carla Schulz-Hoffmann 265
"I look and sometimes I see": The Art of Perception in Siri Hustvedt's Novels Astrid Böger 281
"Openings that can't be closed": Patterns of Surveillance Culture in Siri Hustvedt's Novels Birgit Däwes 295
Portraits of the (Post-)Feminist Artist: Female Authorship and Authority in Siri Hustvedt's Fiction Anna Thiemann 311
Trauma, Memory, and the Ambiguities of Self
History and Trauma in Siri Hustvedt's The Sorrows of an American Jean-Michel Rabaté 329
Crisis of Knowledge: Trauma in The Sorrows of an American Katharina Donn 341
"The wounded psyche is not a broken leg": Illness, Injury, and Writing the Self in Siri Hustvedt's Work Katja Sarkowsky 357
Embodied Memories, Embodied Meanings: Mind, Matter, and Place in the Works of Siri Hustvedt Christopher Schliephake 373
"We have different selves over the course of a life, but even all at once": The Multiple Self and Cultural Multiple Personality in Siri Hustvedt's The Blazing World Heike Schwarz 389
Interview with Siri Hustvedt
"Deceiving the reader into the truth": A Conversation with Siri Hustvedt about The Blazing World (2014) Susanne Becker 409
List of Contributors 423
