Twins in Contemporary Literature and Culture

Download or read book Twins in Contemporary Literature and Culture written by Juliana De Nooy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-06-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.