Introduction: Relations between Literary Theory and Memory Studies
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literature‹ Claudia Mueller-Greene in her essay The Concept of Limi-nality as a Theoretical Tool in Literary Memory Studies: Liminal Aspects of Memory in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children proposes two different perspectives on liminality: the mnemonic liminality of literature and the mnemonic liminality in literature. The article takes a close look at the specificity of liminality, the ambiguity, uncertainty, and chaos it involves, and aims to examine the applicability of the concept for Literary Memory Studies. Her case study of Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children (1981) focusses on narrative devices such as metaphors and allegories, magic realism, intertextuality, unreliable narration, and the semanticization of space and objects as effective techniques to stage and reflect liminal aspects of memory in literary texts.