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Twins in Contemporary Literature and Culture

Look Twice

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  • © 2005

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  1. Juliana Nooy

    1. University of Queensland, Australia

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Look Twice: Narrative Uses of Twins

    • Juliana de Nooy
    Pages 1-20

  3. Twins and the Couple: Surviving Sameness in Novels of Twin Lives

    • Juliana de Nooy
    Pages 21-46

  4. Twins and Sexual Rivalry: Recasting the Wicked Sister in Thriller Films

    • Juliana de Nooy
    Pages 47-67

  5. Twins and the ‘Crisis of Masculinity’: Patterns in Body Horror Cinema

    • Juliana de Nooy
    Pages 68-88

  6. Twins and the ‘Gay Gene’ Debate: When Queer Comic Fiction Meets Behaviour Genetics

    • Juliana de Nooy
    Pages 89-113

  7. Twins and Nations: Tales of Cultural Divides

    • Juliana de Nooy
    Pages 114-136

  8. Twins as Doubtful Doubles: Postmodern Identity, Irony and Invention

    • Juliana de Nooy
    Pages 137-157

  9. Conclusion: Twins and Problems of Representation

    • Juliana de Nooy
    Pages 158-165

  10. Afterword

    • Juliana de Nooy
    Pages 166-167

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 168-198
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About this book

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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  • University of Queensland, Australia

    Juliana Nooy

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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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