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Author : Zhu Ying
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039107469
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Fiction and the Incompleteness of History written by Zhu Ying and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's thesis (Doctoral--University of Hong Kong, 2005).
Author : Zhu Ying
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780820480060
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Fiction and the Incompleteness of History written by Zhu Ying and published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With reference to Paul Ricoeur's conception of the interconnectedness of history and fiction, this comparative literary study examines narrative strategies that three contemporary writers of fiction - Toni Morrison, V. S. Naipaul, and Ben Okri - have devised to counteract the incompleteness of historical representation. In her novel Beloved Morrison redefines the slave-narrative tradition and reveals an alternative history of slavery by unveiling the interior lives of her characters. Through a hybrid prose that mixes fiction with history in the novels The Enigma of Arrival and A Way in the World, Naipaul illuminates « areas of darkness in the diasporic world of East Indian Trinidadians and provides new ways of transforming English literary and cultural history. Focusing on West African identity and community, Okri brings a mythic and fantastic dimension to postcolonial fiction as a way of giving a voice to people who are generally without power and almost without any place in a world of inequality and injustice. Probing into historical incompleteness, this study underscores the indispensable role of fiction in representing life, rectifying history, and enlarging reality.
Author : Lubomír Doležel
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801897440
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Possible Worlds of Fiction and History written by Lubomír Doležel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Possible Worlds of Fiction and History, Lubomír Doležel reexamines the claim—made first by Roland Barthes and then popularized by Hayden White—that "there is no fundamental distinction between fiction and history." Doležel rejects this assertion and demonstrates how literary and discourse theory can help the historian to restate the difference between fiction and history. He challenges scholars to reassess the postmodern viewpoint by reintroducing the idea of possible worlds. Possible-worlds semantics reveals that possible worlds of fiction and possible worlds of history differ in their origins, cultural functions, and structural and semantic features. Doležel’s book is the first systematic application of this idea to the theory and philosophy of history. Possible Worlds of Fiction and History is the crowning work of one of literary theory’s most engaged thinkers.
Author : Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393327604
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Incompleteness written by Rebecca Goldstein and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An introduction to the life and thought of Kurt Gödel, who transformed our conception of math forever"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Maria Takolander
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039111930
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Catching Butterflies written by Maria Takolander and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magical realism was one of the most significant literary developments in the last century. It has become synonymous with the seductive fictions of writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, Ben Okri, Jeanette Winterson and Peter Carey. However, the genre has also become known for its theoretical indeterminacy. In fact, exoticist speculation, inspired by the links between magical realist literature and the world's cultural or political margins, has thrown the category into critical disrepute. This book rescues magical realism from misreadings and misdemeanours, tracing the historical development of the literary genre and analysing an original spectrum of magical realist texts from Latin America, Africa, India, Canada, the US, the UK and Australia. It asks such questions as: How did magical realism come to take over the world? What is the nature of its allure? Also, how does the marginal status of its authors inform the genre? Does magical realism have a political agenda? This book uses postcolonial theory to investigate notions of cultural identity and post-structural theory to examine the narrative strategies of magical realism, presenting a comprehensive historical and theoretical overview of the genre and a politically urgent argument about its subversive potentialities.
Author : Kathleen Singles
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110272474
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Alternate History written by Kathleen Singles and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While, strictly speaking, Alternate Histories are not Future Narratives, their analysis can shed a clear light on why Future Narratives are so different from past narratives. Trying to have it both ways, most Alternate Histories subscribe to a conflicting set of beliefs concerning determinism and freedom of choice, contingency and necessity. For the very first time, Alternate Histories are here discussed against the backdrop of their Other, Future Narratives. The volume contains in-depth analyses of the classics of the genre,such as Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle and Philip Roth's The Plot against America, as well as less widely-discussed manifestations of the genre, such as Dieter Kühn's N,ChristianKracht'sIch werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten,and Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds.
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Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Canadian Review of Comparative Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K. Sewell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230000932
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Herbert Butterfield and the Interpretation of History written by K. Sewell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-01-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines successive stages in the development of the thought of Sir Herbert Butterfield in relation to fundamental issues in the science of history. In a carefully nuanced way it lays bare the unspoken motivations and hidden tensions in Butterfield's debate with himself and with a host of contemporary historians in the period between 1924-79.
Author : Ann Curthoys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780369370808
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Is History Fiction? (16pt Large Print Edition) written by Ann Curthoys and published by . This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between history and fiction has always been a controversial one. Can we ever know that a historical narrative is giving us a true account of what actually happened? Provocative and fascinating, this book is an original and insightful examination of the ways in which history is - and might be - written. It traces History's doubleness and divided nature, beginning with its founding figures, Herodotus and Thucydides, right up to the key figures of historical reflection, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Benedetto Croce, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault and Hayden White. The authors explore the challenges posed by postmodernism to history and the literary conventions of most historical writing. In this second edition they bring their history of history up to the present in their study of the History Wars and new approaches to world history and environmental history.
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Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann
ISBN 13 : 382603824X
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture. Band 55.4 (2007) written by and published by Königshausen & Neumann. This book was released on with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Professor Daniela Garofalo
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409479277
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Women, Love, and Commodity Culture in British Romanticism written by Professor Daniela Garofalo and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a new understanding of canonical Romanticism, Daniela Garofalo suggests that representations of erotic love in the period have been largely misunderstood. Commonly understood as a means for transcending political and economic realities, love, for several canonical Romantic writers, offers, instead, a contestation of those realities. Garofalo argues that Romantic writers show that the desire for transcendence through love mimics the desire for commodity consumption and depends on the same dynamic of delayed fulfillment that was advocated by thinkers such as Adam Smith. As writers such as William Blake, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, John Keats, and Emily Brontë engaged with the period's concern with political economy and the nature of desire, they challenged stereotypical representations of women either as self-denying consumers or as intemperate participants in the market economy. Instead, their works show the importance of women for understanding modern economics, with women's desire conceived as a force that not only undermines the political economy's emphasis on productivity, growth, and perpetual consumption, but also holds forth the possibility of alternatives to a system of capitalist exchange.
Author : Daniela Garofalo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134778848
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Women, Love, and Commodity Culture in British Romanticism written by Daniela Garofalo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a new understanding of canonical Romanticism, Daniela Garofalo suggests that representations of erotic love in the period have been largely misunderstood. Commonly understood as a means for transcending political and economic realities, love, for several canonical Romantic writers, offers, instead, a contestation of those realities. Garofalo argues that Romantic writers show that the desire for transcendence through love mimics the desire for commodity consumption and depends on the same dynamic of delayed fulfillment that was advocated by thinkers such as Adam Smith. As writers such as William Blake, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, John Keats, and Emily Brontë engaged with the period's concern with political economy and the nature of desire, they challenged stereotypical representations of women either as self-denying consumers or as intemperate participants in the market economy. Instead, their works show the importance of women for understanding modern economics, with women's desire conceived as a force that not only undermines the political economy's emphasis on productivity, growth, and perpetual consumption, but also holds forth the possibility of alternatives to a system of capitalist exchange.
Author : Professor Steven Connor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134908563
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present written by Professor Steven Connor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Connor provides in-depth analyses of the novel and its relationship with its own form, with contemporary culture and with history. He incorporates an extensive and varied range of writers in his discussions such as * George Orwell * William Golding * Angela Carter * Doris Lessing * Timothy Mo * Hanif Kureishi * Marina Warner * Maggie Gee Written by a foremost scholar of contemporary culture and theory, The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present offers not only a survey but also a historical and cultural context to British literature produced in the second half of this century.
Author : Linden Peach
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786837293
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women's Fiction written by Linden Peach and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comparative study of fiction by late twentieth and twenty-first century women writers from Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales. This work is of interest to students interested in women’s studies, gender studies, and cultural studies as well as Welsh, Irish and Celtic studies.
Author : K. Cooper
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137283386
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction written by K. Cooper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Other Boleyn Girl to Fingersmith , this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. It asks how these representations are influenced by contemporary gender politics, and whether they can be seen as part of a wider feminist project to recover women's history.
Author : Cyrus R. K. Patell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192844725
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Oxford History of the Novel in English written by Cyrus R. K. Patell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of US fiction since 1940 that explores the history of literary forms, the history of narrative forms, the history of the book, the history of media, and the history of higher education in the United States.
Author : Robert E. Crafton
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476621292
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The African American Experience in Crime Fiction written by Robert E. Crafton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immensely popular genre, crime fiction has only in recent years been engaged significantly by African American authors. Historically, the racist stereotypes often central to crime fiction and the socially conservative nature of the genre presented problems for writing the black experience, and the tropes of justice and restoration of social order have not resonated with authors who saw social justice as a work in progress. Some African American authors did take up the challenge. Pauline Hopkins, Rudolph Fisher and Chester Himes led the way in the first half of the 20th century, followed by Ishmael Reed's "anti-detective" novels in the 1970s. Since the 1990s, Walter Mosley, Colson Whitehead and Stephen L. Carter have written detective fiction focusing on questions of constitutional law, civil rights, biological and medical issues, education, popular culture, the criminal justice system and matters of social justice. From Hopkins's Hagar's Daughter (published in 1901), to Hime's hardboiled "Harlem Detective" series, to Carter's patrician world of the black bourgeoisie, these authors provide a means of examining literary and social constructions of the African-American experience. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
