Furthering the scholarship on writers and artists as diverse as Lord Byron, Edvard Munch, Sylvia Plath, and Jorge Luis Borges, Zeng probes the semiotics of exile. In artistic traditions the world over, exile exerts a potent and complex mythmaking power - whether it is manifest as a geographical dislocation or as a sense of cultural or psychological alienation.

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Hong Zeng is an assistant professor of Chinese language, literature, and film at Carleton College.

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Introduction Semiotics of Exile in Photography Poetics of Exile Semiotics of Exile in Tragedy E'criture feminine and the Semiotics of Exile Cosmic Exile and the Fourth Dimension in Escher, Borges, and Proust Artist-in-Exile