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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Metafictional Crossings written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alex Landragin
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250259053
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Crossings written by Alex Landragin and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sparkling debut. Landragin’s seductive literary romp shines as a celebration of the act of storytelling." —Publishers Weekly "Romance, mystery, history, and magical invention dance across centuries in an impressive debut novel." —Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "Deft writing seduces the reader in a complex tale of pursuit, denial, and retribution moving from past to future. Highly recommended." —Library Journal (Starred Review) Alex Landragin's Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut—a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes. On the brink of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a German-Jewish bookbinder stumbles across a manuscript called Crossings. It has three narratives, each as unlikely as the next. And the narratives can be read one of two ways: either straight through or according to an alternate chapter sequence. The first story in Crossings is a never-before-seen ghost story by the poet Charles Baudelaire, penned for an illiterate girl. Next is a noir romance about an exiled man, modeled on Walter Benjamin, whose recurring nightmares are cured when he falls in love with a storyteller who draws him into a dangerous intrigue of rare manuscripts, police corruption, and literary societies. Finally, there are the fantastical memoirs of a woman-turned-monarch whose singular life has spanned seven generations. With each new chapter, the stunning connections between these seemingly disparate people grow clearer and more extraordinary. Crossings is an unforgettable adventure full of love, longing and empathy.
Author : Ming-Tsang Yang(楊明蒼)、Wesley Xi(奚永慧)、She-Ru Kao(高瑟濡)、Pao-Hsiang Wang(王寶祥)、Ya-feng Wu(吳雅鳳)、Min-tser Lin(林明澤)、Eva Yin-I Chen(陳音頤)、Su-ching Huang(黃素卿)、Iping Liang(梁一萍)、Han-yu Huang(黃涵榆)(Introduction by David Punter)
Publisher : 國立臺灣大學出版中心
ISBN 13 : 9860270880
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Gothic Crossings written by Ming-Tsang Yang(楊明蒼)、Wesley Xi(奚永慧)、She-Ru Kao(高瑟濡)、Pao-Hsiang Wang(王寶祥)、Ya-feng Wu(吳雅鳳)、Min-tser Lin(林明澤)、Eva Yin-I Chen(陳音頤)、Su-ching Huang(黃素卿)、Iping Liang(梁一萍)、Han-yu Huang(黃涵榆)(Introduction by David Punter) and published by 國立臺灣大學出版中心. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lance Weldy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443827606
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Crossing Textual Boundaries in International Children’s Literature written by Lance Weldy and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As the first part of the title indicates, my interest in looking at intertextuality and transformation still maintains a prominent place throughout this book as well. If we believe that ‘no text is an island,’ then we will understand that the relationships between and within texts across the years become a fascinating place for academic inquiry. I included the word ‘boundaries’ into the title because we never get tired of voicing our opinions about texts which traverse relegated boundaries, such as genre or medium. Not only am I interested in discussing what these changes across boundaries mean socially, historically, and culturally, but also what they mean geographically, which accounts for the second part of my title. “I am very excited that this book will be placing even more emphasis on children’s literature in an international scene than my first book did, in the sense that I have added more scholars on an international level. I hesitate to list the nationalities of all of the contributors here because quite a few have themselves crossed international boundaries in different ways, by either studying abroad or finding permanent residency in foreign countries. Nevertheless, the writers have lived extensively in or identify as being from Australia, Canada, England, Finland, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United States of America, and Wales.” —Introduction
Author : Lynn Mie Itagaki
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452950156
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Civil Racism written by Lynn Mie Itagaki and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, also known as the Rodney King riots, followed the acquittal of four police officers who had been charged with assault and the use of excessive force against a Black motorist. The violence included widespread looting and destruction of stores, many of which were owned or operated by Korean Americans in neighborhoods that were predominantly Black and Latina/o. Civil Racism examines a range of cultural reactions to the “riots” anchored by calls for a racist civility, a central component of the aesthetics and politics of the post–civil rights era. Lynn Mie Itagaki argues that the rebellion interrupted the rhetoric of “civil racism,” which she defines as the preservation of civility at the expense of racial equality. As an expression of structural racism, Itagaki writes, civil racism exhibits the active—though often unintentional—perpetuation of discrimination through one’s everyday engagement with the state and society. She is particularly interested in how civility manifests in societal institutions such as the family, the school, and the neighborhood, and she investigates dramatic, filmic, and literary texts by African American, Asian American, and Latina/o artists and writers that contest these demands for a racist civility. Itagaki specifically addresses what she sees as two “blind spots” in society and in scholarship. One is the invisibility of Asians and Latinas/os in media coverage and popular culture that, she posits, importantly shapes Black–White racial formations in dominant mainstream discourses about race. The second is the scholarly separation of two critical traditions that should be joined in analyses of racial injustice and the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion: comparative race studies and feminist theories. Civil Racism insists that the 1992 “riots” continue to matter, that the artistic responses matter, and that—more than twenty years later—debates about issues of race, ethnicity, class, and gender are more urgent than ever.
Author : Bernhard Kettemann
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823346609
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (466 download)
Download or read book Crossing Borders written by Bernhard Kettemann and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1999 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Friederike Ursula Eigler
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571139036
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Heimat, Space, Narrative written by Friederike Ursula Eigler and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how contemporary novels dealing with flight and expulsion after the Second World War unsettle traditional notions of Heimat without abandoning place-based notions of belonging. At the end of the Second World War, millions of Germans and Poles fled or were expelled from the border regions of what had been their countries. This monograph examines how, in Cold War and post-Cold War Europe since the 1970s, writers have responded to memories or postmemories of this traumatic displacement. Friederike Eigler engages with important currents in scholarship -- on "Heimat," the much-debated German concept of "homeland"; on the spatial turnin literary studies; and on German-Polish relations -- arguing for a transnational approach to the legacies of flight and expulsion and for a spatial approach to Heimat. She explores notions of belonging in selected postwar and contemporary German novels, with a comparative look at a Polish novel, Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night (1998). Eigler finds dynamic manifestations of place in Tokarczuk's novel, in Horst Bienek's 1972-82 Gleiwitz tetralogy about the historical border region of Upper Silesia, and in contemporary novels by Reinhard Jirgl, Christoph Hein, Kathrin Schmidt, Tanja Dückers, Olaf Müller, and Sabrina Janesch. In a decisive departure from earlierapproaches, Eigler explores how these novels foster an awareness of the regions' multiethnic and multinational histories, unsettling traditional notions of Heimat without altogether abandoning place-based notions of belonging. Friederike Eigler is Professor of German at Georgetown University.
Author : Professor Anthony Uhlmann FAHA
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743326947
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Gerald Murnane written by Professor Anthony Uhlmann FAHA and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald Murnane is one of Australia’s most important contemporary authors, but for years was neglected by critics. In 2018 the New York Times described him as “the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of” and tipped him as a future Nobel Prize winner. Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One coincides with a renewed interest in his work. It includes an important new essay by Murnane himself, alongside chapters by established and emerging literary critics from Australia and internationally. Together they provide a stimulating reassessment of Murnane’s diverse body of work.
Author : Daniel O'Gorman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134743777
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction written by Daniel O'Gorman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of contemporary fiction is a fascinating yet challenging one. Contemporary fiction has immediate relevance to popular culture, the news, scholarly organizations, and education – where it is found on the syllabus in schools and universities – but it also offers challenges. What is ‘contemporary’? How do we track cultural shifts and changes? The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction takes on this challenge, mapping key literary trends from the year 2000 onwards, as the landscape of our century continues to take shape around us. A significant and central intervention into contemporary literature, this Companion offers essential coverage of writers who have risen to prominence since then, such as Hari Kunzru, Jennifer Egan, David Mitchell, Jonathan Lethem, Ali Smith, A. L. Kennedy, Hilary Mantel, Marilynne Robinson, and Colson Whitehead. Thirty-eight essays by leading and emerging international scholars cover topics such as: • Identity, including race, sexuality, class, and religion in the twenty-first century; • The impact of technology, terrorism, activism, and the global economy on the modern world and modern literature; • The form and format of twenty-first century literary fiction, including analysis of established genres such as the pastoral, graphic novels, and comedic writing, and how these have been adapted in recent years. Accessible to experts, students, and general readers, The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction provides a map of the critical issues central to the discipline, as well as uncovering new perspectives and new directions for the development of the field. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of contemporary literature.
Author : Joan Douglas Peters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813024318
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Feminist Metafiction and the Evolution of the British Novel written by Joan Douglas Peters and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peters' groundbreaking study focuses on women as narrators in six British novels to show that the strategic use of women's narratives was intrinsic to the formation of the Western novel as a literary form and in fact has come to define what we now understand as novelistic even in non-canonical works. The book makes an original contribution to the scholarship of the history of British fiction by breaking away from the widely held critical position that women's narratives were outside and against the history of the genre. In her analysis of dual-voiced works from the eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries, Peters shows that women's metafictional discourse within the novel did not emerge as a late-twentieth-century reaction to the canon but has been present from the novel's beginnings. She also introduces a new level of academic discourse to feminist narratology as an approach to literary works by focusing attention on the dynamics of structure at the level of text, separate from the fiction. Peters' selection of novels by both male and female authors is a distinguishing feature of the book; the result is a rich and original description of how gender and genre interact in
Author : Andrea Macrae
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429638485
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Discourse Deixis in Metafiction written by Andrea Macrae and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume advances scholarly understanding of the ways in which discourse deixis underpins the workings of metafictional novels. Building on existing scholarship in the field, the book begins by mapping out key themes and techniques in metafiction and puts forward a focused and theoretically coherent account of discourse deixis—language which points to a section or aspect of the discourse context in which that language is used—in written literary discourse, highlighting its inherent significance in metafiction specifically. Macrae takes readers through an exploration of discourse deixis as used within the techniques of metanarration, metalepsis, and disnarration, drawing on a mix of both well-established and lesser-known metafictional novels from the late 1960s and early 1970s by such authors as John Barth, Brigid Brophy, Robert Coover, John Fowles, Steve Katz, and B.S. Johnson. This comprehensive account integrates and develops a new approach to understanding discourse deixis and innovative insights into metafictionality more broadly and will be of particular interest to scholars in literary studies, postmodern literature, narratology, and stylistics.
Author : Hein Viljoen
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401209081
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Crossing Borders, Dissolving Boundaries written by Hein Viljoen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borders separate but also connect self and other, and literary texts not only enact these bordering processes, but form part of such processes. This book gestures towards a borderless world, stepping, as it were, with thousand-mile boots from south to north (even across the Atlantic), from South Africa to Scandinavia. It also shows how literary texts model and remodel borders and bordering processes in rich and meaningful local contexts. The essays assembled here analyse the crossing and negotiation of borders and boundaries in works by Nadine Gordimer, Ingrid Winterbach, Deneys Reitz, Janet Suzman, Marlene van Niekerk, A.S. Byatt, Thomas Harris, Frank A. Jenssen, Eben Venter, Antjie Krog, and others under different signs or conceptual points of attraction. These signs include a spiritual turn, eventfulness, self-understanding, ethnic and linguistic mobilization, performative chronotopes, the grotesque, the carceral, the rhetorical, and the interstitial. Contributors: Ileana Dimitriu, Heilna du Plooy, John Gouws, Anne Heith, Lida Krüger, Susan Meyer, Adéle Nel, Ellen Rees, Johan Schimanski, Tony Ullyatt, Phil van Schalkwyk, Hein Viljoen.
Author : Tapan Basu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611479002
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Crossing Borders written by Tapan Basu and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original, interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the idea of “border crossings” and represent important contributions to the discourses on modernity, diasporic mobility, populism, migration, exile, sub-nation, trans-nation, as well as the formation of nationalities, communities, and identities. Borders, in these contexts, signify social and national inequities and hierarchies and also the ways to challenge and transgress entrenched barriers sanctioned by habit, custom, and law. The volume also honors and celebrates the life and work of Amritjit Singh as a teacher, mentor, author, scholar, and editor over half a century.
Author : David Roche
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1399508067
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Meta in Film and Television Series written by David Roche and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study of meta-phenomena in film and television series.
Author : Sissy Helff
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401208980
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Unreliable Truths written by Sissy Helff and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many people see ‘home’ as the domestic sphere and place of belonging, it is hard to grasp its manifold implications, and even harder to provide a tidy definition of what it is. Over the past century, discussion of home and nation has been a highly complex matter, with broad political ramifications, including the realignment of nation-states and national boundaries. Against this backdrop, this book suggests that ‘home’ is constructed on the assumption that what it defines is constantly in flux and thus can never capture an objective perspective, an ultimate truth. Along these lines, Unreliable Truths offers a comparative literary approach to the construction of home and concomitant notions of uncertainty and unreliable narration in South Asian diasporic women’s literature from the UK, Australia, South Africa, the Caribbean, North America, and Canada. Writers discussed in detail include Feroza Jussawalla, Suneeta Peres da Costa, Meera Syal, Farida Karodia, Shani Mootoo, Shobha Dé, and Oonya Kempadoo. With its focus on transcultural homes, Unreliable Truths goes beyond discussions of diaspora from an established postcolonial point of view and contributes with its investigation of transcultural unreliable narration to the representation of a g/local South Asian diaspora.
Author : Jaroslav Kušnír
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 3838255143
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)
Download or read book American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction written by Jaroslav Kušnír and published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaroslav Kušnír’s book American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction is a sequel to his previous study on American postmodern fiction entitled Poetika americkej postmodernej prózy: Richard Brautigan and Donald Barthelme [Poetics of American Fiction: Richard Brautigan and Donald Barthelme]. Prešov: Impreso, 2001. It explores various aspects of American postmodernist fiction as manifested in the works by Richard Brautigan, Donald Barthelme and other American postmodernist authors such as Robert Coover, E. L. Doctorow, Kurt Vonnegut and Paul Auster. Analyzing various short stories and novels, the author shows differences between modernist and postmodernist literature in the works of Donald Barthelme; the way postmodern parodies of popular literary genres give a critique of some aspects of American cultural identity and experience (the American Dream, individualism, consumerism); and he also shows different ways postmodern authors such as Robert Coover, Kurt Vonnegut and Paul Auster create metafictional effect as one of the most significant aspects of postmodern literature.
Author : Mark Currie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317893867
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Metafiction written by Mark Currie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metafiction is one of the most distinctive features of postwar fiction, appearing in the work of novelists as varied as Eco, Borges, Martin Amis and Julian Barnes. It comprises two elements: firstly cause, the increasing interpenetration of professional literary criticism and the practice of writing; and secondly effect: an emphasis on the playing with styles and forms, resulting from an enhanced self-consciousness and awareness of the elusiveness of meaning and the limitations of the realist form. Dr Currie's volume examines first the two components of metafiction, with practical illustrations from the work of such writers as Derrida and Foucault. A final section then provides the view of metafiction as seen by metafictional writers themselves.
