ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

pp vii-viii

Contents

pp ix-x

List of Illustrations

pp xi-xii

Notes on Contributors

pp xiii-xvi

Introduction

pp xvii-xxviii

Part One - Doors, Windows, Entries

pp 1-2

1 - Windows: Looking In, Looking Out, Breaking Through

pp 3-16

2 - ‘Zero…Zero…and Zero’: Permeable Walls and Off-stage Spaces

pp 17-28

3 - ‘The Queer Part Doors Play’ in Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark

pp 29-42

4 - ‘Invasion from Outer Space’: The Threshold of Annunciations

pp 43-70

Part Two - Lives and Narratives, Territories and Worlds

pp 71-72

5 - Unsettling Thresholds: Mignon and Her Afterlives

pp 73-86

6 - Dangerous Liaisons: Desire and Limit in The Home and the World

pp 87-100

7 - Writing Through Osmotic Borders: Boundaries, Liminality and Language in Mehmet Yashin's Poetics

pp 101-112

8 - Dancing and Romancing: The Obstacle of the Beach and the Threshold of the Past

pp 113-128

Part Three - Matter, Mind, Psyche

pp 129-130

9 - ‘Remember Me’

pp 131-140

10 - Between Sleep and Waking: Montaigne, Keats and Proust

pp 141-154

Part Four - Reading, Writing, Playing, Listening

pp 155-156

11 - Reading on the Threshold

pp 157-172

12 - When I Begin I have Already Begun

pp 173-184

13 - Thresholds in Improvisation: Freedom, the Eternal Present, and the Death of Jazz

pp 185-198

14 - Thresholds of Attention: On Listening in Literature

pp 199-212

Select Bibliography (including Discography)

pp 213-224