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The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era

Author : Susan Brantly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315386445
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era written by Susan Brantly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past. How does an author’s nationality or gender impact their artistic choices? To what extent can historical novels appeal to a transnational audience? This study demonstrates how histories can communicate across national borders, often by invoking or deconstructing the very notion of nationhood. Furthermore, it traces how the concerns of the postmodern era, such as postmodern critiques of historiography, colonialism, identity, and the Enlightenment, have impacted the genre of the historical novel, and shows this impact has not been uniform throughout Western culture. Not all historical novels written during the postmodern era are postmodern. The historical novel as a genre occupies a problematic, yet significant space in Cold War literary currents, torn between claims of authenticity and the impossibility of accessing the past. Historical novels from England, America, Germany, and France are compared and contrasted with historical novels from Sweden, testing a variety of theoretical perspectives in the process. This pitting of a center against a periphery serves to highlight traits that historical novels from the West have in common, but also how they differ. The historical novel is not just a local, regional phenomenon, but has become, during the postmodern era, a transnational tool for exploring how we should think of nations and nationalism and what a society should, or should not, look like.

The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era

Author : Susan Brantly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315386453
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era written by Susan Brantly and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past. How does an author’s nationality or gender impact their artistic choices? To what extent can historical novels appeal to a transnational audience? This study demonstrates how histories can communicate across national borders, often by invoking or deconstructing the very notion of nationhood. Furthermore, it traces how the concerns of the postmodern era, such as postmodern critiques of historiography, colonialism, identity, and the Enlightenment, have impacted the genre of the historical novel, and shows this impact has not been uniform throughout Western culture. Not all historical novels written during the postmodern era are postmodern. The historical novel as a genre occupies a problematic, yet significant space in Cold War literary currents, torn between claims of authenticity and the impossibility of accessing the past. Historical novels from England, America, Germany, and France are compared and contrasted with historical novels from Sweden, testing a variety of theoretical perspectives in the process. This pitting of a center against a periphery serves to highlight traits that historical novels from the West have in common, but also how they differ. The historical novel is not just a local, regional phenomenon, but has become, during the postmodern era, a transnational tool for exploring how we should think of nations and nationalism and what a society should, or should not, look like.

The Transnational in Literary Studies

Author : Kai Wiegandt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110688727
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Transnational in Literary Studies written by Kai Wiegandt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume clarifies the meanings and applications of the concept of the transnational and identifies areas in which the concept can be particularly useful. The division of the volume into three parts reflects areas which seem particularly amenable to analysis through a transnational lens. The chapters in Part 1 present case studies in which the concept replaces or complements traditionally dominant concepts in literary studies. These chapters demonstrate, for example, why some dramatic texts and performances can better be described as transnational than as postcolonial, and how the transnational underlies and complements concepts such as world literature. Part 2 assesses the advantages and limitations of writing literary history with a transnational focus. These chapters illustrate how such a perspective loosens the epistemic stranglehold of national historiographies, but they also argue that the transnational and national agendas of literary historiography are frequently entangled. The chapters in Part 3 identify transnational genres such as the transnational historical novel, transnational migrant fiction and translinguistic theatre, and analyse the specific poetics and politics of these genres.

Writing History as a Prophet

Author : Elisabeth Wesseling
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027222126
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Writing History as a Prophet written by Elisabeth Wesseling and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past. Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter Scott, Wesseling moves via a global survey of 19th century historical fiction to modernist innovations in the genre. Noting how the self-reflexive strategy enables a novelist to represent an episode from the past alongside the process of gathering and formulating historical knowledge, the author discusses the elaboration of this strategy, introduced by novelists such as Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, in the work of, among others, Julian Barnes, Jay Cantor, Robert Coover and Graham Swift.Wesseling also shows how postmodernist writers attempt to envisage alternative sequences for historical events. Deliberately distorting historical facts, authors of such uchronian fiction, like Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael R. Read, Salman Rushdie and Gunter Grass, imagine what history looks like from the perspective of the losers, rather than the winners.

Contemporary Historical Fiction, Exceptionalism and Community

Author : Susan Strehle
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303055466X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Historical Fiction, Exceptionalism and Community written by Susan Strehle and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes a significant group of contemporary historical fictions that represent damaging, even catastrophic times for people and communities; written “after the wreck,” they recall instructive pasts. The novels chronicle wars, slavery, racism, child abuse and genocide; they reveal damages that ensue when nations claim an exalted, exceptionalist identity and violate the human rights of their Others. In sympathy with the exiled, writers of these contemporary historical fictions create alternative communities on the state’s outer fringes. These fictive communities include where the state excludes; they foreground relations of debt and obligation to the group in place of individualism, competition and private property. Rather than assimilating members to a single identity with a unified set of views, the communities open multiple possibilities for belonging. Analyzing novels from Britain, Australia and the U.S., along with additional transnational examples, Susan Strehle explores the political vision animating some contemporary historical fictions.

21st Century US Historical Fiction

Author : Ruth Maxey
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030418979
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book 21st Century US Historical Fiction written by Ruth Maxey and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection examines important US historical fiction published since 2000. Exploring historical novels by established American writers such as Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow, Chang-rae Lee, James McBride, Susan Choi, and George Saunders, the book also includes chapters on first-time novelists. Individual essays in 21st Century US Historical Fiction: Contemporary Responses to the Past tackle prominent and provocative new novels, for example, recent Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction by Anthony Doerr, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Colson Whitehead. Interrogating such key themes as war, race, sexuality, trauma and childhood; notions of genre and periodization; and recent theorizations of historical fiction, scholars from the United States, Canada, Britain and Ireland analyze an emerging canon of contemporary historical fiction by an ethno-racially diverse range of major American writers.

Writing Back Through Our Mothers

Author : Tegan Zimmerman
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643905602
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Writing Back Through Our Mothers written by Tegan Zimmerman and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in the literary tradition, the contemporary woman's historical novel (post-1970) is surveyed from a transnational feminist perspective. Analyzing the maternal (the genre's central theme) reveals that historical fiction is a transnational feminist means for challenging historical erasures, silences, normative sexuality, political exclusion, and divisions of labor. (Series: Contributions to Transnational Feminism - Vol. 5)

Romantic Legacies

Author : Shun-Liang Chao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429516231
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Legacies written by Shun-Liang Chao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts presents the most wide-ranging treatment of Romantic regenerations, covering the cross-pollination between the arts or between art and thought in Germany, Britain, France, the US, Russia, India, China, and Japan. Each chapter in the volume examines a legacy or afterlife in a comparative context to demonstrate ongoing Romantic legacies as fully as possible in their complexity and richness. The volume provides readers a lens through which to understand Romanticism not merely as an artistic heritage but as a dynamic site of intellectual engagement that crosses nations and time periods and entails no less than the shaping of our global cultural currents.

The Limits of Cosmopolitanism

Author : Aleksandar Stevic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429638175
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Cosmopolitanism written by Aleksandar Stevic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the limits of cosmopolitanism in contemporary literature. In a world in which engagement with strangers is no longer optional, and in which the ubiquitous demands of globalization clash with resurgent localist and nationalist sentiments, cosmopolitanism is no longer merely a horizon-broadening aspiration but a compulsory order of things to which we are all conscripted. Focusing on literary texts from such diverse locales as England, Algeria, Sweden, former Yugoslavia, and the Sudan, the essays in this collection interrogate the tensions and impasses in our prison-house of cosmopolitanism.

Scandinavism: Overlapping and Competing Identities in the Nordic World, 1770-1919

Author : Tim van Gerven
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004507353
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Scandinavism: Overlapping and Competing Identities in the Nordic World, 1770-1919 written by Tim van Gerven and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-21 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an in-depth analysis of historicist literature and art, this book demonstrates that cultural Scandinavism, despite its failure as a political mobilizer, was highly successful in strengthening and extending national consciousness-raising in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

Cryptic Subtexts in Literature and Film

Author : Steven F Walker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429861087
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Cryptic Subtexts in Literature and Film written by Steven F Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the primary objectives of comparative literature is the study of the relationship of texts, also known as intertextuality, which is a means of contextualizing and analyzing the way literature grows and flourishes through inspiration and imitation, direct or indirect. When the inspiration and imitation is direct and obvious, the study of this rapport falls into the more restricted category of hypertextuality. What the author has labeled a cryptic subtext, however, is an extreme case of hypertextuality. It involves a series of allusions to another text that have been deliberately inserted by the author into the primary text as potential points of reference. This book takes a deep dive into a broad array of literature and film to explore these allusions and the hidden messages therein.

Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil

Author : Vinicius Mariano De Carvalho
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315386364
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil written by Vinicius Mariano De Carvalho and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Brazil was honored at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013, the Brazilian author Luiz Ruffato opened the event with a provocative speech, claiming that literature, through its pervasive depiction and discussion of ‘otherness,’ has the potential to provoke ethical transformation. This book uses Ruffato’s speech as a starting point for the discussion of contemporary Brazilian literature that stands in contrast to the repetition of social and cultural clichés. By illuminating the relevance of humanities and literature as a catalyst for rethinking Brazil, the book offers a resistance to the official discourses that have worked for so long to conceal social tensions, injustices, and secular inequities in Brazilian society. In doing so, it situates Brazilian literature away from the exotic and peripheral spectrum, and closer to a universal and more relevant ethical discussion for readers from all parts of the world. The volume brings together fresh contributions on both canonical contemporary authors such as Graciliano Ramos, Rubem Fonseca, and Dalton Trevisan, and traditionally silenced writing subjects such as Afro-Brazilian female authors. Essays deal with specific contemporary literary and social issues while engaging with historically constitutive phenomena in Brazil, including authoritarianism, violence, and the systematic violation of human rights. The exploration of diverse literary genres -- from novels to graphic novels, from poetry to crônicas -- and engagement with postcolonial studies, gender studies, queer studies, cultural studies, Brazilian studies, South American literature, and world literature carves new space for the emergence of an original Brazilian thought.

Nordic Literature of Decadence

Author : Pirjo Lyytikäinen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429655428
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Nordic Literature of Decadence written by Pirjo Lyytikäinen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nordic Literature of Decadence fills a gap on the map of world literature and participates in a thriving area of research by extending the investigation of broadly understood fin de siècle decadence to unexplored areas of Nordic literature, which remain practically unknown to Anglophone audiences. In the Nordic countries the new Parisian movements were seen as having caused a malicious invasion, a ‘black flood’ that was spreading over the North destroying the very foundations of Nordic national cultures. Nevertheless, the appeal of this controversial movement was irresistible to discontents and innovators, even in countries where the old moral, religious and nationalist atmosphere still retained its stranglehold and modern urban, industrial and social developments lagged behind that of the metropoles breeding this new literature and art. The Nordic countries developed their own distinctive manifestations of decadence favouring allegorical and allusive forms, local rural settings and depictions of primitive nature, coupling the philosophical underpinnings of fin-de-siècle decadence with ancient Nordic mythology and rising national movements. Nordic decadence thus became a distinctive and recognizable phenomenon, which travelled back to France and other European countries, influencing the ongoing debate on decadence as it was conducted on a global scale. Nordic Literature of Decadence discusses literature from five Nordic countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Estonia and offers additional and alternative perspectives to the cosmopolitan traffic and cultural exchanges of literary decadence that have been explored so far in the English language scholarship.

Narrating Death

Author : Daniel K. Jernigan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429755678
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Narrating Death written by Daniel K. Jernigan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives try to push the boundaries of what can be said about death.

Narrative Turns and Minor Genres in Postmodernism

Author : Theo D'haen
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051838503
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Narrative Turns and Minor Genres in Postmodernism written by Theo D'haen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pluralist Desires

Author : Philipp Löffler
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571139524
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Pluralist Desires written by Philipp Löffler and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excavates the contemporary revival of 19th-century cultural pluralism, revealing how American novelists since the 1990s have appropriated the historical novel in the pursuit of selfhood rather than truth, fundamentally repositioning the genre in American culture.

Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race

Author : S. Kim
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230103960
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race written by S. Kim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race challenges the critical emphasis on otherness in treatments of race in literary and cultural studies. Sue J. Kim deftly argues that this treatment not only perpetuates narrow identity politics, but obscures the political and economic structures that shape issues of race in literary studies. Kim s revelatory book shows how reading authors through their identity ends up neglecting both complex historical contexts and aesthetic forms. This comparative study calls for a reconsideration of the bases for critical engagement and a reading ethics that melds the best of historicist and formalist approaches to literature.