The Semiotics of Exile in Literature

In a collection that furthers the scholarship on individual writers and artists as diverse as Lord Byron, Edvard Munch, Sylvia Plath, and Jorge Luis Borges, Zeng probes the semiotics of exile: exile as geographical dislocation, but also as certain forms of cultural and psychological uprootedness, is seen to exert a potent and complex mythmaking power in many distinct but interrelated artistic traditions.