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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900

European Notebooks - New Societies and Old Politics, 1954-1985 (Hardcover): Francois Bondy European Notebooks - New Societies and Old Politics, 1954-1985 (Hardcover)
Francois Bondy
R1,779 Discovery Miles 17 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A generation of outstanding European thinkers emerged out of the rubble of World War II. It was a group unparalleled in their probing of an age that had produced totalitarianism as a political norm, and the Holocaust as its supreme nightmarish achievement. Figures ranging from George Lichtheim, Ignazio Silone, Raymond Aron, Andrei Amalrik, among many others, found a home in "Encounter." None stood taller or saw further than Francois Bondy of Zurich. In a moving tribute to his friend, Melvin J. Lasky, long- time editor of "Encounter," writes, "Bondy was a breathtaking spectacle. I had known him to read and walk, to think and talk, all at once--and still make mental notes for his next article.... Early or late, seated or standing, awake or asleep, his incomparable spiritedness would always be darting from point to point, paying attention and idly wandering at once. Taken all in all, he still continues to represent for me perhaps a Henry Jamesian "New Man."" Bondy's essays themselves represent a broad sweep of major figures and events in the second half of the twentieth century. His spatial outreach went from Budapest to Tokyo and Paris. His political essays extended from George Kennan to Benito Mussolini. And his prime mutier, the cultural figures of Europe, covered Sartre, Kafka, Heidegger and Milosz. The analysis was uniformly fair minded but unstinting in its insights. Taken together, the variegated themes he raised in his work as a Zurich journalist, a Paris editor, and a European "homme de letres" sketch guidelines for an entrancing portrait of the intellectual as cosmopolitan. "European Notebooks" contains most of the articles that Bondy (1915-2003) wrote for "Encounter" under the stewardship of Stephen Spender, Irving Kristol, and then for the thirty years that Melvin Lasky served as editor. Bondy was that rare unattached intellectual, "free of every totalitarian temptation" and, as Lasky notes, unfailing in his devotion to the liberties and civilities of a humane social order. "European Notebooks" offers a window into a civilization that came to maturity during the period in which these essays were written.

The Individual and the Authority Figure in Egyptian Prose Literature (Hardcover): Yona Sheffer The Individual and the Authority Figure in Egyptian Prose Literature (Hardcover)
Yona Sheffer
R3,903 Discovery Miles 39 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Individual and the Authority Figure in Egyptian Prose Literature explores and analyses political conflicts between individuals and authority figures, as those conflicts are depicted in thirteen Egyptian novels written from 1957 to the last years of Mubarak's presidency. The book discusses the various reasons that lead an individual or a group of people from all strata of society (common people, intellectuals, and public figures) to confront policemen, senior security officials, and even the heads of the state. It further examines how the conflicts develop and what their outcomes are in the short term as well as in the long term, for both the individuals and the authority figures. In this context, the volume also examines the possibility of standing against an oppressive regime and even overcoming it. This text argues that while the authority figure initially subdues individuals who confront them, their victory is short term. In the long term, their cruelties bring about sown deaths, either by the individuals themselves or by their relatives. Furthermore, large assemblies of people can confront the regime with success. These discoveries, along with other findings presented in the book, remain relevant to the reality in the Middle East and the events leading to the Arab Spring.

Modern Political Aesthetics from Romantic to Modernist Literature - Choreographies of Social Performance (Hardcover): Tudor... Modern Political Aesthetics from Romantic to Modernist Literature - Choreographies of Social Performance (Hardcover)
Tudor Balinisteanu
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this new research monograph, Tudor Balinsteanu draws on concepts of dance to demonstrate how the nonhuman is dealt with in terms of practical politics, that is, choreographies of social performance which emerge at the intersection of literature, art, and embodied life. Drawing on a number of influential texts by William Wordsworth, Joseph Conrad, W. B. Yeats, and James Joyce, this truly interdisciplinary monograph explores the relations between the human and the nonhuman across centuries of literature and as demonstrated in philosophical concepts and social experiments.

Clay Phoenix - A Biography of Jack Clemo (Paperback): Luke Thompson Clay Phoenix - A Biography of Jack Clemo (Paperback)
Luke Thompson
R490 R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Save R45 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Novel Creatures - Animal Life and the New Millennium (Hardcover): Hilary Thompson Novel Creatures - Animal Life and the New Millennium (Hardcover)
Hilary Thompson
R3,901 Discovery Miles 39 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Novel Creatures takes a close look at the expanding interest in animals in modern times and argues that the novels of this period reveal a dramatic shift in conceptions of "creatureliness." Scholars have turned to the term "creaturely" recently to describe shared aspects of human and animal experience, thus moving beyond work that primarily attends to distinctions between the human and the animal. Carrying forward this recent scholarship, Novel Creatures argues that creatureliness has been an intensely millennial preoccupation, but in two contrasting forms-one leading up to the turn of the millennium, and the other appearing after the tragic events of 9/11.

Writers at War - Exploring the Prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden (Paperback): Isabelle... Writers at War - Exploring the Prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden (Paperback)
Isabelle Brasme
R1,122 Discovery Miles 11 220 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Writers at War addresses the most immediate representations of the First World War in the prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden; it interrogates the various ways in which these writers contended with conveying their war experience from the temporal and spatial proximity of the warzone and investigates the multifarious impact of the war on the (re)development of their aesthetics. It also interrogates to what extent these texts aligned with or challenged existing social, cultural, philosophical and aesthetic norms. While this book is concerned with literary technique, the rich existing scholarship on questions of gender, trauma and cultural studies on World War I literature serves as a foundation. This book does not oppose these perspectives but offers a complementary approach based on close critical reading. The distinctiveness of this study stems from its focus on the question of representation and form and on the specific role of the war in the four authors' literary careers. This is the first scholarly work concerned exclusively with theorising prose written from the immediacy of the war. This book is intended for academics, researchers, PhD candidates, postgraduates and anyone interested in war literature.

Literature and the War on Terror - Nation, Democracy and Liberalisation (Paperback): Sk. Sagir Ali Literature and the War on Terror - Nation, Democracy and Liberalisation (Paperback)
Sk. Sagir Ali
R1,180 Discovery Miles 11 800 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book examines cultural imaginations post 9/11. It explores the idea of a religious community and its multifaceted representations in literature and popular culture. The essays in the volume focus on the role of literature, film, music, television shows and other cultural forms in opening up spaces for complex reflections on identities and cultures, and how they enable us to rethink the 'trauma of familiarity', post-traumatic heterotopias, religious extremism and the idea of the 'neighbour' in post-9/11 literary and cultural imagination. The volume also probes the intersections of religion, popular media, televised simulacrum and digital martyrdom in the wake of 9/11. It also probes the simulation of new- age media images with reference to the creation and dissemination of 'martyrs', the languages of grief, religionisation of terrorism, islamophobia, religious stereotypes and the reading of comics in writing the terror. An essential read, the book reclaims and reinterprets the alternative to a Eurocentric/Americentric understanding of cultural and geopolitical structures of global designs. It will be of great interest to researchers of literature and cultural studies, media studies, politics, film studies and South Asian studies.

Student Guide to the Stagecraft of Brian Friel (Paperback): David Grant Student Guide to the Stagecraft of Brian Friel (Paperback)
David Grant
R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

David Grant's study of the stagecraft of Brian Friel results from many years of professional association with the Irish playwright's work. This Student Guide explores the dramatic and cultural significance of Friel's vision of Ireland, the ways in which the plays might be interpreted on the stage and a synoptic view of his contribution to the theatre. Of special interest is Grant's inclusion of theatrical workshops to enhance our understanding of Friel's craft.

The Outsiders - Adolescent Tenderness and Staying Gold (Hardcover): Ann M Ciasullo The Outsiders - Adolescent Tenderness and Staying Gold (Hardcover)
Ann M Ciasullo
R1,401 Discovery Miles 14 010 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This volume traces the unique trajectory of The Outsiders, from beloved book to beloved movie. Based on S.E. Hinton's landmark novel, Coppola's film adaptation tells the story of the Greasers, a gang of working-class boys yearning for security, love, and acceptance in a world ruled by their rival gang, the rich Socs. The Outsiders: Adolescent Tenderness and Staying Gold explores the cultural impact of Hinton's book, the process by which Coppola made the film, the film's melodramatic components, the marketing of the movie to a young female audience, and the nostalgia industry that has emerged around it in recent decades, thereby illuminating how The Outsiders stands apart from other teen films of the 1980s. In its depiction of the emotional rather than sexual lives of young men on film and its recognition of the desires of teen girls as an audience, The Outsiders distinguishes itself from the standard teen fare of the era. With seriousness and sincerity, Coppola's film captures the essence of the oft-repeated, timeless message of the story: 'Stay gold.' This volume engages with a wide range of disciplinary approaches-film studies, gender studies, and literary and cultural studies-in order to distinguish The Outsiders as the significant contribution to youth culture that it was in the early 1980s and continues to be in the twenty-first century. The book fills a gap in existing scholarship on youth culture, and is ideal for scholars, students and teachers in youth cultures, Young Adult literature, film studies, cultural studies, and gender studies.

C S Lewis - A biography of friendship (Paperback, New edition): Colin Duriez C S Lewis - A biography of friendship (Paperback, New edition)
Colin Duriez 1
R339 R277 Discovery Miles 2 770 Save R62 (18%) In Stock

An Oxford student of C.S. Lewis's said he found his new tutor interesting, and was told by J.R.R. Tolkien, 'Interesting? Yes, he's certainly that. You'll never get to the bottom of him.' You can learn a great deal about people by their friends and nowhere is this more true than in the case of C.S. Lewis, the remarkable academic, author, populariser of faith - and creator of Narnia. He lost his mother early in life, and became estranged from his father, much to his regret. Throughout his life, key relationships mattered deeply to him, from his early days in the north of Ireland and his schooldays in England, as still a teenager in the trenches of World War One, and then later in Oxford. The friendships he cultivated throughout his life proved to be vital, influencing his thoughts, his beliefs and his writings. What did Arthur Greeves, a life-long friend from his adolescence, bring to him? How did J.R.R. Tolkien, and the other members of the now famous Inklings, shape him? Why, in his early twenties, did he move in with a single mother twice his age, Janie Moore, and live with her for so many years until her death? And why did he choose to marry so late? What of the relationship with his alcoholic and gifted brother, who eventually joined his unusual household? In this sparkling new biography, which draws on material not previously published, Colin Duriez brings C.S. Lewis and his friendships to life.

Routledge Library Editions: Virginia Woolf (Hardcover): Various Authors Routledge Library Editions: Virginia Woolf (Hardcover)
Various Authors
R12,978 R10,506 Discovery Miles 105 060 Save R2,472 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1963 and 1990, draw together research by leading academics on Virginia Woolf, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volumes include literary criticism on Virginia Woolf's novels, poetry, plays and essays, through the lens of linguistics, narrative theory, psychoanalysis and textual analysis, whilst also exploring the literary modernist movement. This set will be of particular interest to students of literature, history and linguistics respectively.

The Nature of Modernism - Ecocritical Approaches to the Poetry of Edward Thomas, T. S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell and Charlotte Mew... The Nature of Modernism - Ecocritical Approaches to the Poetry of Edward Thomas, T. S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell and Charlotte Mew (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Black
R4,229 Discovery Miles 42 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This books presents the first extended study of the relationship between British modernist poetry and the environment. Challenging reductive associations of modernism as predominantly anthropocentric in character and urban in focus, the book's central argument is that within British modernist poetry there is a clear and sustained interest in the natural world which has yet to receive adequate critical attention. Whilst modernist studies continues to emphasize the plurality of the movement and the breadth of voices and concerns within it, the environmental consciousness of modernist literature and its response to changes to human/nature relations following the experience of war and modernity remain largely unexamined. Exploring British modernist poetry from an ecocritical perspective offers a fresh approach to the movement and its context, and produces original readings of both canonical and more marginalized modernist voices. This book opens by discussing the relationship between modernism and ecocriticism and the benefits of creating a dialogue between the two. It then presents new readings of Edward Thomas, T. S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell, and Charlotte Mew that reveal a shared preoccupation with environmental issues and a common desire to find new ways of achieving physical, psychological, and artistic reconnection with nature. Building on the continuing growth of ecocriticism, this book demonstrates how green approaches to modernist studies can produce new insights into both individual poets and the modernist movement as a whole, making it an essential resource for students of modernism, ecocriticism, and early-twentieth-century literature.

Modernism After the Death of God - Christianity, Fragmentation, and Unification (Paperback): Stephen Kern Modernism After the Death of God - Christianity, Fragmentation, and Unification (Paperback)
Stephen Kern
R1,198 Discovery Miles 11 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Modernism After the Death of God explores the work of seven influential modernists. Friedrich Nietzsche, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Andre Gide, and Martin Heidegger criticized the destructive impact that they believed Christian sexual morality had had or threatened to have on their love life. Although not a Christian, Freud criticized the negative effect that Christian sexual morality had on his clinical subjects and on Western civilization, while Virginia Woolf condemned how her society was sanctioned by a patriarchal Christian authority. All seven worked to replace the loss or absence of Christian unity with non-Christian unifying projects in their respective fields of philosophy, psychiatry, or literature. The basic structure of their main contributions to modernist culture was a dynamic interaction of radical fragmentation necessitating radical unification that was always in process and never complete.

Rilke's Hands - An Essay on Gentleness (Hardcover): Harold Schweizer Rilke's Hands - An Essay on Gentleness (Hardcover)
Harold Schweizer
R1,386 Discovery Miles 13 860 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This is a book of meditative reading. Each of the sixty-one aphoristic entries aims to interpret Rilke's poetry as a musician might play Debussy's Clair de lune, to transpose into the key of language the song, the melody, and the refrain of Rilke's gentle disposition: his recognition of the transience of things; his acknowledgment of the vulnerability and fragility of people, animals, and flowers; his empathy toward those who suffer. The cut flowers gently laid out on the garden table "recovering from their death already begun" in one of theSonnets to Orpheus form a thread now visible now faint through most of this book. And because of the flowers, the concept of gentleness forms another thread, and because of gentleness, hands-agents of gentleness throughout Rilke's poetry-enfold these pages. The German word leise (gentle, tender, quiet) weaves the first thread; the second is woven by flowers, then by girls' hands, then by angels, the beloved, the poor, the dying and the dead, animals, birds, dogs, fountains, things, vanishings. The purpose of this essay is to experience and to examine gentleness, how it shapes and pervades Rilke's work, how his poetry might gently inspire us to become more gentle people.

The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books (Paperback): Martin Edwards The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books (Paperback)
Martin Edwards 1
R463 R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Save R84 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book tells the story of crime fiction published during the first half of the twentieth century. The diversity of this much-loved genre is breathtaking, and so much greater than many critics have suggested. To illustrate this, the leading expert on classic crime discusses one hundred books ranging from The Hound of the Baskervilles to Strangers on a Train which highlight the entertaining plots, the literary achievements, and the social significance of vintage crime fiction. This book serves as a companion to the acclaimed British Library Crime Classics series but it tells a very diverse story. It presents the development of crime fiction - from Sherlock Holmes to the end of the golden age - in an accessible, informative and engaging style.

Reading The Future - Twelve Writers from Ireland in Conversation with Mike Murphy (Paperback): Cliodhna Ni Anluain, Declan... Reading The Future - Twelve Writers from Ireland in Conversation with Mike Murphy (Paperback)
Cliodhna Ni Anluain, Declan Kiberd; Introduction by Declan Kiberd; Photographs by Patrick Redmond
R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Featuring nine in-depth interviews with Mike Murphy and three round-table discussions with fellow Irish writers and critics, Reading the Future creates a unique freeze-frame portrait of Ireland's literary culture at the turn of the century - and provides fascinating insights into the shaping influences on the lives, creative minds and working methods of twelve great writers. Including a challenging introduction by Declan Kiberd, consulting editor to the series and chairman of the selection panel, Reading the Future is an indispensable source for any serious reader of Irish literature.

Mentioning the War - Essays and Reviews 1999-2011 (Paperback): Kevin Higgins Mentioning the War - Essays and Reviews 1999-2011 (Paperback)
Kevin Higgins
R302 Discovery Miles 3 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is Kevin Higgins' first book of essays on poetry, the written word, and the wider world. Higgins is an enthusiastic advocate for the new generation of Irish poets emerging from a thriving live poetry scene. He is also a merciless opponent of hypocrisy and pretentiousness wherever he finds it.

Modernism and Latin America - Transnational Networks of Literary Exchange (Hardcover): Patricia Novillo-Corvalan Modernism and Latin America - Transnational Networks of Literary Exchange (Hardcover)
Patricia Novillo-Corvalan
R3,906 Discovery Miles 39 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between Latin American and European modernisms during the long twentieth century. Drawing on comparative, historical, and postcolonial reading strategies (including archival research), it seeks to reenergize the study of modernism by putting the spotlight on the cultural networks and aesthetic dialogues that developed between European and non-European writers, including Pablo Neruda, James Joyce, Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, Victoria Ocampo, Roberto Bolano, Julio Cortazar, Samuel Beckett, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, and Malcolm Lowry. The book explores a wide range of texts that reflect these writers' complex concerns with questions of exile, space, empire, colonization, reception, translation, human subjectivity, and modernist experimentation. By rethinking modernism comparatively and by placing this intricate web of cultural interconnections within an expansive transnational (and transcontinental) framework, this unique study opens up new perspectives that delineate the construction of a polycentric geography of modernism. It will be of interest to those studying global modernisms, as well as Latin American literature, transatlantic studies, comparative literature, world literature, translation studies, and the global south.

Beckett on File (Paperback): Virginia Cooke Beckett on File (Paperback)
Virginia Cooke
R881 Discovery Miles 8 810 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book, first published in 1985, assembles essential facts on Samuel Beckett and makes vital but elusive information available. It contains a comprehensive checklist of all the writer's plays, with a detailed performance history, excerpted reviews, and most importantly, a selection of Beckett's own comments on their work drawn from essays, interviews, letters and diaries. Other features include a chronology of life and work, a checklist of non-dramatic writings and an annotated bibliography.

Beckett the Playwright (Paperback): John Fletcher, John Spurling Beckett the Playwright (Paperback)
John Fletcher, John Spurling
R891 Discovery Miles 8 910 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book, first published in 1985, stresses Beckett's success as an innovator in the theatre through a close reading and analysis of his plays. The differing backgrounds of the two authors enables them to approach Beckett's drama in a particularly fruitful way: 'Their analysis is clever yet level-headed, readable but does not shirk complexities.' (Times Educational Supplement). 'Brilliant collection of essays on Beckett and his works.' (Irish Times)

Beckett the Shape Changer - A Symposium (Paperback): Katharine Worth Beckett the Shape Changer - A Symposium (Paperback)
Katharine Worth
R899 Discovery Miles 8 990 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The essays in this book, first published in 1975, suggest how best to approach Beckett, how to read him, how to get closer to the concrete experience offered by this most concrete of writers. It aims to bring out the full diversity of Beckett's art as dramatist and story-teller. His astonishing flexibility and inventiveness is stressed throughout, either in studies of single novels, or from the whole range of the fiction and stage drama, or from the experiments in other media: the solitary film, the radio plays. Beckett's bilingualism, one of the strangest aspects of his Proteanism, is examined through a comparison of the French and English texts of some of his stage plays. The emphasis of the essays is literary rather than philosophical: they explore narrative and dramatic processes, the strange partial transitions between them, the fine relations of form and feeling which Beckett aims at through whatever medium he is using, and his humaneness, expressed through the many nuances of his humour. The shorter fiction and the later writings also receive close attention.

Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity - Poetics of Michael Donaghy and Don Paterson (Hardcover): Beverley Nadin Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity - Poetics of Michael Donaghy and Don Paterson (Hardcover)
Beverley Nadin
R1,382 Discovery Miles 13 820 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity examines the poetic works of Michael Donaghy and Don Paterson and their advancement of a poetics of sound, sense, and language of meaning. Observing Donaghy's critical perspectives on orality, tradition, and memory, and Don Paterson's systems of collective relation and "lyric unity," this volume explores the intellectual curiosity of both poets from the classical to contemporary, perceived in music, literature, philosophy, scientific thought, and the rituals and austerities of the transcendent. This text also explores the tensions between craft and spontaneity, and between the intellect and intuition occupying their work, along with a fundamental respect for form as the poet's guiding principle. Investigating this overlap in critical perspective, Orality, Form, and Lyric Unity exposes persuasive rhetoric, and pursues a nuanced understanding of the enigmatic complexity of poetic language and its critical context. This volume interrogates valuable insights into form, language, and poetics, and clarifies and reframes these, with a focus on the creative process for readers interested in poetry and the informative nature of these works.

Surreal Beckett - Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, and Surrealism (Hardcover): Alan Warren Friedman Surreal Beckett - Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, and Surrealism (Hardcover)
Alan Warren Friedman
R3,923 Discovery Miles 39 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Surreal Beckett situates Beckett's writings within the context of James Joyce and Surrealism, distinguishing ways in which Beckett forged his own unique path, sometimes in accord with, sometimes at odds with, these two powerful predecessors. Beckett was so deeply enmeshed in Joyce's circle during his early Paris days (1928 - late 1930s) that James Knowlson dubbed them his "Joyce years." But Surrealism and Surrealists rivaled Joyce for Beckett's early and continuing attention, if not affection, so that Raymond Federman called 1929-45 Beckett's "surrealist period." Considering both claims, this volume delves deeper into each argument by obscuring the boundaries between theses differentiating studies. These received wisdoms largely maintain that Beckett's Joycean connection and influence developed a negative impact in his early works, and that Beckett only found his voice when he broke the connection after Joyce's death. Beckett came to accept his own inner darkness as his subject matter, writing in French and using a first-person narrative voice in his fiction and competing personal voices in his plays. Critics have mainly viewed Beckett's Surrealist connections as roughly co-terminus with Joycean ones, and ultimately of little enduring consequence. Surreal Beckett argues that both early influences went much deeper for Beckett as he made his own unique way forward, transforming them, particularly Surrealist ones, into resources that he drew upon his entire career. Ultimately, Beckett endowed his characters with resources sufficient to transcend limitations their surreal circumstances imposed upon them.

Surreal Entanglements - Essays on Jeff VanderMeer's Fiction (Paperback): Louise Economides, Laura Shackelford Surreal Entanglements - Essays on Jeff VanderMeer's Fiction (Paperback)
Louise Economides, Laura Shackelford
R1,164 Discovery Miles 11 640 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This edited collection approaches the most pressing discourses of the Anthropocene and posthumanist culture through the surreal, yet instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer's fiction. In contrast to universalist and essentializing ways of responding to new material realities, VanderMeer's work invites us to re-imagine human subjectivity and other collectivities in the light of historically unique entanglements we face today: the ecological, technological, aesthetic, epistemological, and political challenges of life in the Anthropocene era. Situating these messy, multi-scalar, material complexities of life in close relation to their ecological, material, and colonialist histories, his fiction renders them at once troublingly familiar and strangely generative of other potentialities and insight. The collection measures VanderMeer's work as a new kind of speculative surrealism, his texts capturing the strangeness of navigating a world in which "nature" has become radically uncanny due to global climate change and powerful bio-technologies. The first collection to survey academic engagements with VanderMeer, this book brings together scholars in the fields of environmental literature, science fiction, genre studies, American literary history, philosophy of technology, and digital cultures to reflect on the environmentally, culturally, aesthetically, and politically central questions his fiction poses to predominant understandings of the Anthropocene.

The Routledge Introduction to the Canadian Short Story (Paperback): Maria Loeschnigg The Routledge Introduction to the Canadian Short Story (Paperback)
Maria Loeschnigg
R1,075 Discovery Miles 10 750 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This volume aims to introduce undergraduates, graduates, and general readers to the diversity and richness of Canadian short story writing and to the narrative potential of short fiction in general. Addressing a wide spectrum of forms and themes, the book will familiarise readers with the development and cultural significance of Canadian short fiction from the early 19th century to the present. A strong focus will be on the rich reservoir of short fiction produced in the past four decades and the way in which it has responded to the anxieties and crises of our time. Drawing on current critical debates, each chapter will highlight the interrelations between Canadian short fiction and historical and socio-cultural developments. Case studies will zoom in on specific thematic or aesthetic issues in an exemplary manner. The Routledge Introduction to the Canadian Short Story will provide an accessible and comprehensive overview ideal for students and general readers interested in the multifaceted and thriving medium of the short story in Canada.

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