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Adjusting the Borders of Self: Sir Walter Scott's The Two Drovers.(Critical Essay)

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From: Papers on Language & Literature
Date: 20010101
Author:HUSSEIN ALI, ZAHRA A.

Border theory, though mainly concerned with postcolonial and avant-garde literature, can invigorate the reading of older canonical texts written by the staunchest Tories of English Literature. As an emerging socio-political approach to art and literature, it investigates the ways borderlands incarnate history and thus emerge as the locus for the transformation of subjectivities and cultures. Russ Castronovo explains the nature and significance of such settings. By way of definition the border is the "most heavily traveled route, a path beaten by the incessant 'double movement of ...

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