This book examines the writing of David Foster Wallace, hailed as the voice of a generation on his death. Critics have identified horror of solipsism, obsession with sincerity and a corresponding ambivalence regarding postmodern irony, and detailed attention to contemporary culture as the central elements of Wallace's writing. Clare Hayes-Brady draws on the evolving discourses of Wallace studies, focusing on the unifying anti-teleology of his writing, arguing that that position is a fundamentally political response to the condition of neo-liberal America.
She argues that Wallace's work is most unified by its resistance to closure, which pervades the structural, narrative and stylistic elements of his writing. Taking a broadly thematic approach to the numerous types of 'failure', or lack of completion, visible throughout his work, the book offers a framework within which to read Wallace's work as a coherent whole, rather than split along the lines of fiction versus non-fiction, or pre- and post-Infinite Jest, two critical positions that have become dominant over the last five years. While demonstrating the centrality of 'failure', the book also explores Wallace's approach to sincere communication as a recurring response to what he saw as the inane, self-absorbed commodification of language and society, along with less explored themes such as gender, naming and heroism.
Situating Wallace as both a product of his time and an artist sui generis, Hayes-Brady details his abiding interest in philosophy, language and the struggle for an authentic self in late-twentieth-century America.
Автор: David Buchanan Название: Going Scapegoat: Post-9/11 War Literature, Language and Culture ISBN: 147666658X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476666587 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 44350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Since 9/11, David Buchanan argues, the genre of war literature has become a "sufferable" and "suffering" feature of American popular culture. While there has long been a simmering critical debate regarding artistic depictions of war - who can write war literature, when he or she can do so - Buchanan wades right in to offer a new way to close-read war narratives.
Автор: Mary K. Holland Название: Succeeding Postmodernism: Language and Humanism in Contemporary American Literature ISBN: 1628925345 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781628925340 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 40120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: While critics collect around the question of what comes "after postmodernism," this book asks something different about recent American fiction: what if we are seeing not the end of postmodernism but its belated success? Succeeding Postmodernism examines how novels by DeLillo, Wallace, Danielewski, Foer and others conceptualize threats to individuals and communities posed by a poststructural culture of mediation and simulation, and possible ways of resisting the disaffected solipsism bred by that culture. Ultimately it finds that twenty-first century American fiction sets aside the postmodern problem of how language does or does not mean in order to raise the reassuringly retro question of what it can and does mean: it finds that novels today offer language as solution to the problem of language. Thus it suggests a new way of reading "antihumanist" late postmodern fiction, and a framework for understanding postmodern and twenty-first century fiction as participating in a long and newly enlivened tradition of humanism and realism in literature.
Автор: Shane Weller Название: Language and Negativity in European Modernism ISBN: 1108475027 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108475020 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 91870.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book argues that within European literary modernism there is a distinct literary strain characterised by a radical re-engagement with late nineteenth and early twentieth-century language scepticism, and an enactment of various forms of linguistic negativism. This book is a great resource for graduates and scholars interested in modernist studies.
Автор: Martin B. Platt Название: Isan Writers, Thai Literature: Writing and Regionalism in Modern Thailand ISBN: 9971696975 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789971696979 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 39730.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Regional characteristics and regional language feature prominently in discussions of Thai identity, but there is little mention of regional literatures. In northeastern Thailand’s Isan region, authors write primarily in Thai, but it is possible nonetheless to identify an Isan literature, which played a significant and at times pivotal role in the development of Thai literature in the second half of the twentieth century, as authors grappled with how their origins and experiences related to the Thai centre. Martin Platt’s account of Isan literature is an important first step toward a broader study of regional literatures in Thailand, and shapes a model that has relevance for examining literary works in other Asian countries. Martin B. PLATT is Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen.
Автор: Mary K. Holland Название: Succeeding Postmodernism: Language and Humanism in Contemporary American Literature ISBN: 1441130616 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441130617 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 137280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: While critics collect around the question of what comes "after postmodernism," this book asks something different about recent American fiction: what if we are seeing not the end of postmodernism but its belated success? Succeeding Postmodernism examines how novels by DeLillo, Wallace, Danielewski, Foer and others conceptualize threats to individuals and communities posed by a poststructural culture of mediation and simulation, and possible ways of resisting the disaffected solipsism bred by that culture. Ultimately it finds that twenty-first century American fiction sets aside the postmodern problem of how language does or does not mean in order to raise the reassuringly retro question of what it can and does mean: it finds that novels today offer language as solution to the problem of language. Thus it suggests a new way of reading "antihumanist" late postmodern fiction, and a framework for understanding postmodern and twenty-first century fiction as participating in a long and newly enlivened tradition of humanism and realism in literature.
Автор: Yildiz Yasemin Название: Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition ISBN: 0823255751 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780823255757 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 27450.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Beyond the Mother Tongue examines distinct forms of multilingualism, such as writing in one socially unsanctioned “mother tongue” about another language (Franz Kafka); mobilizing words of foreign derivation as part of a multilingual constellation within one language (Theodor W. Adorno); producing an oeuvre in two separate languages simultaneously (Yoko Tawada); and mixing different languages, codes, and registers within one text (Feridun Zaimoglu).
Автор: Philpot Brad Название: English Language and Literature for the IB Diploma ISBN: 1107400341 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107400344 Издательство: Cambridge Education Рейтинг: Цена: 54620.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: For students studying the new Language A Language and Literature syllabus for the IB Diploma.
Автор: Judith Woodsworth Название: Telling the Story of Translation: Writers who Translate ISBN: 147427708X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474277082 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 137280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Scholars have long highlighted the links between translating and (re)writing, increasingly blurring the line between translations and so-called ‘original’ works. Less emphasis has been placed on the work of writers who translate, and the ways in which they conceptualize, or even fictionalize, the task of translation. This book fills that gap and thus will be of interest to scholars in linguistics, translation studies and literary studies. Scrutinizing translation through a new lens, Judith Woodsworth reveals the sometimes problematic relations between author and translator, along with the evolution of the translator’s voice and visibility. The book investigates the uses (and abuses) of translation at the hands of George Bernard Shaw, Gertrude Stein and Paul Auster, prominent writers who bring into play assorted fictions as they tell their stories of translations. Each case is interesting in itself because of the new material analysed and the conclusions reached. Translation is seen not only as an exercise and fruitful starting point, it is also a way of paying tribute, repaying a debt and cementing a friendship. Taken together, the case studies point the way to a teleology of translation and raise the question: what is translation for? Shaw, Stein and Auster adopt an authorial posture that distinguishes them from other translators. They stretch the boundaries of the translation proper, their words spilling over into the liminal space of the text; in some cases they hijack the act of translation to serve their own ends. Through their tales of loss, counterfeit and hard labour, they cast an occasionally bleak glance at what it means to be a translator. Yet they also pay homage to translation and provide fresh insights that continue to manifest themselves in current works of literature. By engaging with translation as a literary act in its own right, these eminent writers confer greater prestige on what has traditionally been viewed as a subservient art.
Автор: Plews John L., Schmenk Barbara Название: Traditions and Transitions: Curricula for German Studies ISBN: 1554584310 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781554584314 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 102960.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Presents a collection of essays by Canadian and international scholars on the topic of why and how the curriculum for post-secondary German studies should evolve. Contributors, international experts in the field of German as a foreign or second language, explore new perspectives on and orientations in the curriculum.
Автор: Helmut Schmitz, Peter Davies Название: Edinburgh German Yearbook 11: Love, Eros, and Desire in Contemporary German-Language Literature and Culture ISBN: 1571139788 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781571139788 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Рейтинг: Цена: 68640.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: New essays exploring the resurgence of the theme of romantic relationships and love in German literature since around the turn of the millennium.
Автор: Carola Daffner, Beth A. Muellner Название: German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives ISBN: 3110378205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110378207 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 123910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the last few decades, the phrase “spatial turn” has received increased attention in German Studies, inspired by developments within the discipline of geography.The volume German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives engages the analytical category of space and the spatial turn in the context of German women’s writing. The collection of essays divides its discussion of spatiality in German literature into sections that reflect privileged sites within the current scholarly debates around space. Essays look to such issues as environmentalism, globalization, migration and immigration, concerns of belonging, points of encounter, spaces and places of (im-)mobility, topographies of departure and arrival, movement, motion, or shifting identities. German Women Writers and the Spatial Turn: New Perspectives continues the challenge to understand the representation of space and place in German language texts by focusing on how spatial theory figures into the realm of feminist thinking and writing.
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