The Post-War Experimental Novel: British and French Fiction, 1945-75, Andrew Hodgson

Название: Only connect
ISBN: 3034325991 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034325998
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Since Forster’s death in 1970, many British novelists and film directors have acknowledged and even claimed the influence of the novelist of the English soul (in Woolf’s terms) and of a renewed faith in both human relationships and a quintessentially British liberal-humanism. After the ethical turn at the end of the twentieth century, British literature today seems to go back even more drastically to the figure of the individual human being, and to turn the narrative space into some laboratory of a new form of empowerment of the other’s political autonomy. It is in this context that the references to Forster are more and more frequent, both in British fiction and in academia. This book does not only aim at spotting and theorising this return to Forster today. Rather we endeavour to trace its genealogy and shed light on the successive modes of the legacy, from Forster’s first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) onwards, to the novelisation of Forster himself by Damon Galgut. How can the principle of connection, of correspondences and echoes, which informed Forster’s private life and approach to writing so much, equally characterise the aesthetic and political influence of his ?uvre?

Автор: Abu-Manneh
Название: The Palestinian Novel
ISBN: 1107136520 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107136526
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Описание: The first ever English language history of the Palestinian novel from 1948 onwards that charts its development in exile and under occupation. It focuses on the work of four major Palestinian writers - Jabra, Kanafani, Habiby and Khalifa - alongside the work of writers from other cultures addressing Palestinian issues.

Автор: Andrew Hodgson
Название: The Post-War Experimental Novel: British and French Fiction, 1945-75
ISBN: 1350076848 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350076846
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Delving into how the traumatic experience of the Second World War formed - or perhaps malformed - the post-war experimental novel, this book explores how the symbolic violence of post-war normalisation warped societies' perception of reality. Andrew Hodgson explores how the novel was used by authors to attempt to communicate in such a climate, building a memorial space that has been omitted from literatures and societies of the post-war period. Hodgson investigates this space as it is portrayed in experimental modern British and French fiction, considering themes of amnesia, myopia, delusion and dementia. Such themes are constantly referred back to and posit in narrative a motive for the very broken forms these books often take - books in boxes, of spare pages to be shuffled at the reader's will; with holes in pages; missing whole sections of the alphabet; or books written and then entirely scrubbed out in smudged black ink.

Covering the works of B. S. Johnson, Ann Quin, Georges Perec, Roland Topor, Raymond Queneau and others, Andrew Hodgson shows that there is method to the madness of experimental fiction and legitimises the form as a prominent presence within a wider literary and historical movement in European and American avant-garde literatures.

Название: Reading Experimental Writing
ISBN: 1474440398 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474440394
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Описание: Bringing together internationally leading scholars whose work engages with the continued importance of literary experiment, this book takes up the question of `reading` in the contemporary climate from culturally and linguistically diverse perspectives.

Автор: Ross, Stephen (university Of Victoria, Canada)
Название: Youth culture and the post-war british novel
ISBN: 1350067857 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350067851
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From the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of "Cool Britannia," the many subcultures of Britain's teenagers have often been at the forefront of social change. Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel is the first book to chart that history through the work of some of the most influential contemporary British writers.

In this vivid work of cultural history, Stephen Ross explores:

- The manic teenage vision of Absolute Beginners
- The Angry Young Men of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
- Skinheads and Burgess's A Clockwork Orange
- Irony and authenticity in the 1980s - from Amis to Kureishi
- Heroin chic, disaffection and Trainspotting

Examining the cultural contexts of some of the most important and popular post-1945 British novels, the book covers such themes as crises of masculinity, multiculturalism and inter-generational conflict, and in doing so casts new light on British writing today.

Автор: Stephen Ross
Название: Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel: From Teddy Boys to Trainspotting
ISBN: 1350067865 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350067868
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Описание: From the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of "Cool Britannia, +? the many subcultures of Britain's teenagers have often been at the forefront of social change. Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel is the first book to chart that history through the work of some of the most influential contemporary British writers.

In this vivid work of cultural history, Stephen Ross explores:

- The manic teenage vision of Absolute Beginners
- The Angry Young Men of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
- Skinheads and Burgess's A Clockwork Orange
- Irony and authenticity in the 1980s - from Amis to Kureishi
- Heroin chic, disaffection and Trainspotting

Examining the cultural contexts of some of the most important and popular post-1945 British novels, the book covers such themes as crises of masculinity, multiculturalism and inter-generational conflict, and in doing so casts new light on British writing today.

Автор: Osborne
Название: The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010)
ISBN: 1107139244 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107139244
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Описание: There are many anthologies of British Black and Asian literature, but few books provide a critical account of the qualities and impact of this literature comparatively with drama and performance. This Companion offers a comprehensive account of the influence of contemporary British Black and Asian writing in British culture.

Автор: Osborne
Название: The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010)
ISBN: 1316504808 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316504802
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Описание: There are many anthologies of British Black and Asian literature, but few books provide a critical account of the qualities and impact of this literature comparatively with drama and performance. This Companion offers a comprehensive account of the influence of contemporary British Black and Asian writing in British culture.

Автор: Nick Bentley
Название: Contemporary British Fiction
ISBN: 1137009667 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137009661
Издательство: Springer
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This essential guide provides a comprehensive survey of the most important debates in the criticism and research of contemporary British fiction. Nick Bentley analyses the criticism surrounding a range of British novelists including Monica Ali, Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Sarah Waters and Jeanette Winterson. Exploring experiments with literary form, this authoritative book considers cutting-edge concerns relating to the neo-historical novel, the relationship between literature and science, literary geographies, and trauma narratives.

Engaging with key literary theories, and identifying present trends and future directions in the literary criticism of contemporary British fiction, this is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of English literature, teachers, researchers and scholars.

Автор: Anne Whitehead
Название: Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction: An Intervention in Medical Humanities
ISBN: 1474452418 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474452410
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Описание: This book marks a critical intervention in the medical humanities that takes issue with its understanding of empathy as something that one has.

Автор: Absher, Tom
Название: Celebrating the sacred in ordinary life
ISBN: 1433139790 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433139796
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This book is an introductory examination of the Hermetic tradition in the Renaissance and how James Joyce made use of certain of its salient features in his four works of fiction: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. This book makes a useful contribution to literary studies of Joyce’s work as well as introductory cultural studies of the Hermetic tradition, its philosophy and important figures, like Marsilio Ficino and Giordano Bruno.

Автор: Chetty, Rajendra
Название: At the edge
ISBN: 143314641X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433146411
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Ronnie Govender’s works are significant in the construction of a South African national identity. The purpose of this book is to engage critically with race, class and resistance through a collection of essays on Govender’s oeuvre. His writings are re-invigorated by close reading within the context of postcolonial and critical theory. Govender recalls the resilience of the multiracial community of Cato Manor whose democratic coexistence and mutual respect comprise a model for the new nation. As a memory work, his texts recollect private and community identity in the wounded spaces of colonial and apartheid oppression. Events of the past should be interpreted in a creative and imaginative way and literature enlightens it best.

Govender’s unique performative prose reconstructs and resurrects the lives of the residents of Cato Manor, their vitality and humour, pain and humiliation: a vibrant, racially integrated community destroyed by the South African apartheid regime’s notorious Group Areas Act. The book seeks to redress that marginalisation and awaken readers to the bravery and creativity of a small, defiant community in the face of forced removals and social injustice. This book reveals Govender’s central concern for human dignity—his innate sensitivity to the unspoken pain of oppressed people.

The book invites the reader to connect and contrast Govender with a range of contexts and intertextualities—from post-colonial to African continental, from the diasporic to the politically analogous. Govender’s radical shift from colonial obeisance theatre to a revelation of raw existence and authentic living is reflected by questioning, dis-comforting and aggrieving.