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"Do You Consider Yourself a Postmodern Author?"

Author : Rudolf Freiburg
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825843953
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book "Do You Consider Yourself a Postmodern Author?" written by Rudolf Freiburg and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a collection of twelve interviews with eminent English contemporary writers held during a period of four years. The book allows an illuminating insight into a very lively and thought-provoking literary culture, stirred not only by recent ideas of postmodernism but also by the manifold issues of nationality, culture, and gender subjected to permanent redefinitions towards the end of the twentieth century. The interviews with Peter Ackroyd, John Banville, Julian Barnes, Alain de Botton, Maureen Duffy, Tibor Fischer, John Fowles, Romesh Gunesekera, Tim Parks, Terry Pratchett, Jane Rogers, and Adam Thorpe cover topics such as the relationship between writer and public, the role of the literary tradition, the relevance of contemporary literary theory for the production of literature, images of nationality, intertextuality, changes in the attitude towards language and meaning, and the reception of literary texts by critical reviewers and literary critics.

Bomb: The Author Interviews

Author : Bomb Magazine
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616953802
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Bomb: The Author Interviews written by Bomb Magazine and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years of interviews that offer “a window into the minds and the writing processes of some of the world’s best practitioners of poetry and prose” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Since 1981, the quarterly magazine Bomb has been the gold standard for artist-on-artist interviews, showcasing writers, performers, actors, musicians, painters, and architects. The founders, a group of New York City–based artists, wanted a public space for art-makers to talk to each other about their work without the interference of critics or journalists. Thirty years later comes this anthology: an addictively insightful collection of thirty-five interviews with some of the world’s most thought-provoking, funny, profound, compelling authors. It includes literary luminaries such as Mary Gaitskill, Junot Díaz, Sharon Olds, Amy Hempel, Martin Amis, Jeffrey Eugenides, Sapphire, Edwidge Danticat, and Jennifer Egan, among many others, as well as an introduction by Francine Prose. These authors speak frankly about the joys and the pain that inform their work, the influence of family, ambition, criticism, and the sinking, thrilling knowledge of their own mortality. This is Bomb Magazine’s gift to readers: a glimpse into the minds that created the books which informed you, challenged you, yanked on your heartstrings and touched your soul. “Bomb: The Author Interviews brings together a selection of conversations in a handsome anthology. The book, which offers 35 of the magazine’s interviews, is both a primer on authorial strategies and a record of the evolution of an iconic literary institution.” —The Washington Post “BOMB’s author interview series, which has been going for years, is one of the most inspiring dialogues between writers available.” —Bustle “These are not your run of the mill author interviews featuring a journalist throwing canned questions at a writer, these are conversations between writers and delve into the essence of creativity . . . Essential reading for any admirer of contemporary literature.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer

A Companion to the British and Irish Novel, 1945 - 2000

Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405156163
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the British and Irish Novel, 1945 - 2000 written by Brian W. Shaffer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium. Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman Rushdie Provides readings of key novels, including Graham Greene’s ‘Heart of the Matter’, Jean Rhys’s ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ and Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’ Considers particular subgenres, such as the feminist novel and the postcolonial novel Discusses overarching cultural, political and literary trends, such as screen adaptations and the literary prize phenomenon Gives readers a sense of the richness and diversity of the novel during this period and of the vitality with which it continues to be discussed

Contemporary Fiction and the Uses of Theory

Author : M. Greaney
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023020807X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Fiction and the Uses of Theory written by M. Greaney and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-08-25 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This topical study examines the 'novelizations' of radical literary theory in the work of A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Umberto Eco, John Fowles, Richard Powers and many other leading novelists. It offers a comprehensive analysis of the 'post-theoretical novel', and traces an alternative history of the 'theory revolution' in recent literary fiction.

Conversations with Julian Barnes

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604732030
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Julian Barnes written by Julian Barnes and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talks with the British author of Flaubert's Parrot and Arthur & George

Authorship in Context

Author : K. Hadjiafxendi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230206123
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Authorship in Context written by K. Hadjiafxendi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theories of authorship and material culture provide the framework for this study. It maps Anglo-American authorship as it shifts from a theoretical to a more material approach to its study in contexts recognized as key to its development: the nineteenth-century literary market-place, twentieth-century experimentalism and postmodern culture.

Gertrude Stein, Writer and Thinker

Author : Claudia Franken
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825847616
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Book Synopsis Gertrude Stein, Writer and Thinker by : Claudia Franken

Download or read book Gertrude Stein, Writer and Thinker written by Claudia Franken and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

John Fowles

Author : James Acheson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137319364
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book John Fowles written by James Acheson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vibrant collection of original essays sheds new light on all of Fowles' writings, with a special focus on The French Lieutenant's Woman as the most widely studied of Fowles' works. The impressive cast of contributors offers an outstanding range of expertise on Fowles, providing fresh reassessments and new perspectives.

The Fiction of Julian Barnes

Author : Vanessa Guignery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350309117
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Fiction of Julian Barnes written by Vanessa Guignery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julian Barnes's work has been marked by great variety, ranging not only from conventional fiction to postmodernist experimentation in such well-known novels as Flaubert's Parrot (1984) and A History of the World in 10 1⁄2 Chapters (1989), but also from witty essays to deeply touching short stories. The responses of readers and critics have likewise varied, from enthusiasm to scepticism, as the substantial volume of critical analysis demonstrates. This Readers' Guide provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the essential criticism on Barnes's work, drawing from a selection of reviews, interviews, essays and books. Through the presentation and assessment of key critical interpretations, Vanessa Guignery provides the most wide-ranging examination of his fiction and non-fiction so far, considering key issues such as his use of language, his treatment of history, obsession, love, and the relationship between fact and fiction. Covering all of the novels to date, from Metroland (1981) to Arthur and George (2005), this is an invaluable introduction to the work of one of Britain's most exciting and popular contemporary writers.

Writing Women Across Borders and Categories

Author : Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825846398
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Writing Women Across Borders and Categories written by Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Generally held to be rigid, borders and categories are nonetheless expanded when those bounded by the demarcations of hegemony, challenge its strictures. Significant instances of this constructive transgression can be found in the women's writing with which this collection of essays by international critics engages. Whereas in travel writing by women (Sarah Hobson, Dervla Murphy, Jan Morris) `transgression' is seen to have settled into a familiar strategy, in autobiography (Ann Fanshawe. Margaret Cavendish, Christine Brooke-Rose), cultural analysis (Virginia Woolf, Marianna Torgovnick, Donna Haraway), and fiction (Michelle Cliff, Jeanette Winterson, Ellen Galford, Fiona Cooper), women have succeeded in creating an innovative space for themselves. "

Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature

Author : Jean-Michel Ganteau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135104875
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature written by Jean-Michel Ganteau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches including trauma theory, psychoanalysis, genre theory, narrative theory, theories of temporality, cultural theory, and ethics, this book breaks new ground in bringing together trauma and romance, two categories whose collaboration has never been addressed in such a systematic and in-depth way. The volume shows how romance strategies have become an essential component of trauma fiction in general and traumatic realism in particular. It brings to the fore the deconstructive powers of the darker type of romance and its adequacy to perform traumatic acting out and fragmentation. It also zooms in on the variations on the ghost story as medium for the evocation of trans-generational trauma, as well as on the therapeutic drive of romance that favors a narrative presentation of the working-through phase of trauma. Chapters explore various acceptations and extensions of psychic trauma, from the individual to the cultural, analyzing narrative texts that belong in various genres from the ghost story to the misery memoir to the graphic novel. The selection of primary sources allows for a review of leading contemporary British authors such as Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift, Sarah Waters and Jeanette Winterson, and of those less canonical such as Jackie Kay, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Justine Picardie, Peter Roche and Adam Thorpe.

Encyclopedia of the British Novel

Author : Virginia Brackett
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140681
Total Pages : 2708 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the British Novel written by Virginia Brackett and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 2708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the print edition:" ... comprehensive ... Recommended."

Contemporary Trauma Narratives

Author : Jean-Michel Ganteau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317684710
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Trauma Narratives written by Jean-Michel Ganteau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive compilation of essays on the relationship between formal experimentation and ethics in a number of generically hybrid or "liminal" narratives dealing with individual and collective traumas, running the spectrum from the testimonial novel and the fictional autobiography to the fake memoir, written by a variety of famous, more neglected contemporary British, Irish, US, Canadian, and German writers. Building on the psychological insights and theorizing of the fathers of trauma studies (Janet, Freud, Ferenczi) and of contemporary trauma critics and theorists, the articles examine the narrative strategies, structural experimentations and hybridizations of forms, paying special attention to the way in which the texts fight the unrepresentability of trauma by performing rather than representing it. The ethicality or unethicality involved in this endeavor is assessed from the combined perspectives of the non-foundational, non-cognitive, discursive ethics of alterity inspired by Emmanuel Levinas, and the ethics of vulnerability. This approach makes Contemporary Trauma Narratives an excellent resource for scholars of contemporary literature, trauma studies and literary theory.

A Life Composed

Author : André Schüller
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825863623
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book A Life Composed written by André Schüller and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The modern literary critic", T. S. Eliot wrote in 1929, "must be an 'experimenter' outside of what you might at first consider his own province; [...] there is no literary problem which does not lead us irresistibly to larger problems." This book follows Eliot's principle and situates his literary and critical work in a wide context that reveals manifold links between aesthetics, ethics, politics and epistemology: the historical context of early-twentieth-century idealism, vitalism and pragmatism, especially the intensely political Bergsonian controversy, and the modern context of the philosophies of Charles Taylor, Michel Foucault and Richard Rorty. 'Knowledge', it argues, was verbalised in the modernist age, individualised into the act of 'knowing', an act with motives and goals, and thus introduced into the realm of ethics - a process central to twentieth-century thought. Eliot's poems especially, constructed as "a life composed", a literary lifetime linking composition and composure, ponder the virtue of precision, the sins of pride and "mental sloth", the temptation of prejudice and the need for conviction. Decidedly tentative, Eliot's poems solve the problem of morally significant literature. In a century of suspicion, they ask the crucial question of where one should start to rely.

Forgetful Muses

Author : Ian Lancashire
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442640936
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Forgetful Muses written by Ian Lancashire and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we understand and analyze the primarily unconscious process of writing? In this groundbreaking work of neuro-cognitive literary theory, Ian Lancashire maps the interplay of self-conscious critique and unconscious creativity. Forgetful Muses shows how a writer's own 'anonymous, ' that part of the mind that creates language up to the point of consciousness, is the genesis of thought. Those thoughts are then articulated by an author's inner voice and become subject to critique by the mind's 'reader-editor.' The 'reader-editor' engages with the 'anonymous, ' which uses this information to formulate new ideas. Drawing on author testimony, cybernetics, cognitive psychology, corpus linguistics, text analysis, the neurobiology of mental aging, and his own experiences, Lancashire's close readings of twelve authors, including Caedmon, Chaucer, Coleridge, Joyce, Christie, and Atwood, serve to illuminate a mystery we all share.

Advances in Corpus Applications in Literary and Translation Studies

Author : Riccardo Moratto
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000787680
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Advances in Corpus Applications in Literary and Translation Studies written by Riccardo Moratto and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Riccardo Moratto and Professor Defeng Li present contributions focusing on the interdisciplinarity of corpus studies, with a special emphasis on literary and translation studies which offer a broad and varied picture of the promise and potential of methods and approaches. Inside scholars share their research findings concerning current advances in corpus applications in literary and translation studies and explore possible and tangible collaborative research projects. The volume is split into two sections focusing on the applications of corpora in literary studies and translation studies. Issues explored include historical backgrounds, current trends, theories, methodologies, operational methods, and techniques, as well as training of research students. This international, dynamic, and interdisciplinary exploration of corpus studies and corpus application in various cultural contexts and different countries will provide valuable insights for any researcher in literary or translation studies who wishes to have a better understanding when working with corpora.

The Politics of Traumatic Literature

Author : Önder Çakırtaş
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527520587
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Traumatic Literature written by Önder Çakırtaş and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of essays offering an inside view into the inner analysis of traumatic literary studies wherein language is used as a medium of expression so as to interpret man, psyche and memory. By making literature the partner of a dialogue with psychology, in order to better comprehend the psyche, it serves to alter the way of understanding the literary phenomenon. Featuring relevant coverage on topics such as literary production, psychology in literature, identity, and traumatic studies, this book provides in-depth analysis that is suitable for academicians, students, professionals, and researchers interested in discovering more about the relationship between psychology and literature and their effects on thinking.