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

Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction - Transnational and Multidirectional Memory (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction - Transnational and Multidirectional Memory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Pei-Chen Liao
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing on theories of historiography, memory, and diaspora, as well as from existing genre studies, this book explores why contemporary writers are so fascinated with history. Pei-chen Liao considers how fiction contributes to the making and remaking of the transnational history of the U.S. by thinking beyond and before 9/11, investigating how the dynamics of memory, as well as the emergent present, influences readers' reception of historical fiction and alternate history fiction and their interpretation of the past. Set against the historical backdrop of WWII, the Vietnam War, and the War on Terror, the novels under discussion tell Jewish, Japanese, white American, African, Muslim, and Native Americans' stories of trauma and survival. As a means to transmit memories of past events, these novels demonstrate how multidirectional memory can be not only collective but connective, as exemplified by the echoes that post-9/11 readers hear between different histories of violence that the novels chronicle, as well as between the past and the present.

Terrorism, Media, and the Ethics of Fiction - Transatlantic Perspectives on Don DeLillo (Hardcover): Peter Schneck, Philipp... Terrorism, Media, and the Ethics of Fiction - Transatlantic Perspectives on Don DeLillo (Hardcover)
Peter Schneck, Philipp Schweighauser
R4,584 Discovery Miles 45 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In his novel Mao II, Don DeLillo lets his protagonist say, "Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness." DeLillo suggests that while the collective imagination of the past was guided by the creative order of narrative fictions, our contemporary fantasies and anxieties are directed by the endless narratives of war and terror relayed by the mass media. To take DeLillo's literary reflections on media, terrorism, and literature seriously means to engage with the ethical implications of his media critique. This book departs from existing works on DeLillo not only through its focus on the function of literature as public discourse in culture, but also in its decidedly transatlantic perspective. Bringing together prominent DeLillo scholars in Europe and in the US, it is the first critical book on DeLillo to position his work in a transatlantic context.

The Italian Literature of the Axis War - Memories of Self-Absolution and the Quest for Responsibility (Hardcover, 1st ed.... The Italian Literature of the Axis War - Memories of Self-Absolution and the Quest for Responsibility (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Guido Bartolini
R2,691 Discovery Miles 26 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book investigates the representation of the Axis War - the wars of aggression that Fascist Italy fought in North Africa, Greece, the Soviet Union, and the Balkans, from 1940 to 1943 - in three decades of Italian literature. Building on an innovative and interdisciplinary methodology, which combines memory studies, historiography, thematic criticism, and narratology, this book explores the main topoi, themes, and masterplots of an extensive corpus of novels and memoirs to assess the contribution of literature to the reshaping of Italian memory and identity after the end of Fascism. By exploring the influence that public memory exercises on literary depictions and, in return, the contribution of literary texts to the formation and dissemination of a discourse about the past, the book examines to what extent Italian literature helped readers form an ethical awareness of the crimes committed by members of their national community during World War II.

"All-Electric" Narratives - Time-Saving Appliances and Domesticity in American Literature, 1945-2020 (Hardcover): Rachele Dini "All-Electric" Narratives - Time-Saving Appliances and Domesticity in American Literature, 1945-2020 (Hardcover)
Rachele Dini
R3,392 Discovery Miles 33 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"All-Electric" Narratives is the first in-depth study of time-saving electrical appliances in American literature. It examines the literary depiction of refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, oven ranges, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, toasters, blenders, standing and hand-held mixers, and microwave ovens between 1945, when the "all-electric" home came to be associated with the nation's hard-won victory, and 2020, as contemporary writers consider the enduring material and spiritual effects of these objects in the 21st century. The appropriation and subversion of the rhetoric of domestic electrification and time-saving comprises a crucial, but overlooked, element in 20th-century literary forms and genres including Beat literature, Black American literature, second-wave feminist fiction, science fiction, and postmodernist fiction. Through close-readings of dozens of literary texts alongside print and television ads from this period, Dini shows how U.S. writers have unearthed the paradoxes inherent to claims of appliances' capacity to "give back" time to their user, transport them into a technologically-progressive future, or "return" them to some pastoral past. In so doing, she reveals literary appliances' role in raising questions about gender norms and sexuality, racial exclusion and erasure, class anxieties, the ramifications of mechanization, the perils and possibilities of conformity, the limitations of patriotism, and the inevitable fallacy of utopian thinking-while both shaping and radically disrupting the literary forms in which they operated.

Where Literature and Science Meet - The Earthy Writing of Jean-Loup Trassard (Hardcover): Kathryn St. Ours Where Literature and Science Meet - The Earthy Writing of Jean-Loup Trassard (Hardcover)
Kathryn St. Ours
R2,026 Discovery Miles 20 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Jean-Loup Trassard has published more than forty books over the past 50 years. Despite the diverse generic and stylistic diversity of his work, he has remained constant in his effort to depict the rural way of life. Himself a lifelong inhabitant of an agricultural area in the northwest of France, his fiction, nonfiction and photography bear witness to the many changes that have affected our relationship to the earth over the same period. The global significance of the ecological themes that traverse his writings is presented here in English for the first time. More specifically, this ecocritical study examines the ecological implications of Trassard's literary and photographic production through the lens of science. Unexpected convergences between disciplines foster a deeper appreciation of the endeavors of each and their capacity for mutual enrichment.

World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Filippo Menozzi World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Filippo Menozzi
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing on a Marxist concept of world literature, this book is a study of the manipulations of time in contemporary anglophone fiction from Africa and South Asia. Through critical work and literary reading, this research explores the times other than the present that seem to haunt an era of capitalist globalisation: nostalgic feelings about bygone ideals of identity and community, appeals to Golden Ages, returns of the repressed and anxious anticipations of global extinction and catastrophe. The term non-synchronism explored in this book captures these dislocations of the present, while offering a critical lens to grasp the politics of time of an era marked by the continuing expansion of capitalist modernity. Most importantly, non-synchronism is a dialectical paradigm charged with antagonistic political valences. The literary analysis presented in the volume hence connects the literary manipulation of time to discourses on extinction, accumulation, nostalgia, modernity and survival in global politics and literature.

Objects Observed - The Poetry of Things in Twentieth-Century France and America (Hardcover): John C. Stout Objects Observed - The Poetry of Things in Twentieth-Century France and America (Hardcover)
John C. Stout
R2,498 Discovery Miles 24 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Objects Observed explores the central place given to the object by a number of poets in France and in America in the twentieth century. John C. Stout provides comprehensive examinations of Pierre Reverdy, Francis Ponge, Jean Follain, Guillevic, and Jean Tortel. Stout argues that the object furnishes these poets with a catalyst for creating a new poetics and for reflecting on lyric as a genre. In France, the object has been central to a broad range of aesthetic practices, from the era of Cubism and Surrealism to the 1990s. In the heyday of American Modernism, several major poets foregrounded the object in their work; however, in postwar twentieth-century America, poets moved away from a focus on the object. Objects Observed illuminates the variety of aesthetic practices and positions in French and American poets from the years of high Modernism (1909-1930) to the 1990s.

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Hardcover): Peter Robinson The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Hardcover)
Peter Robinson
R4,830 Discovery Miles 48 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry offers thirty-eight chapters of ground breaking research that form a collaborative guide to the many groupings and movements, the locations and styles, as well as concerns (aesthetic, political, cultural and ethical) that have helped shape contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. The book's introduction offers an anthropological participant-observer approach to its variously conflicted subjects, while exploring the limits and openness of the contemporary as a shifting and never wholly knowable category. The five ensuing sections explore: a history of the period's poetic movements; its engagement with form, technique, and the other arts; its association with particular locations and places; its connection with, and difference from, poetry in other parts of the world; and its circling around such ethical issues as whether poetry can perform actions in the world, can atone, redress, or repair, and how its significance is inseparable from acts of evaluation in both poets and readers. Though the book is not structured to feature chapters on authors thought to be canonical, on the principle that contemporary writers are by definition not yet canonical, the volume contains commentary on many prominent poets, as well as finding space for its contributors' enthusiasms for numerous less familiar figures. It has been organized to be read from cover to cover as an ever deepening exploration of a complex field, to be read in one or more of its five thematically structured sections, or indeed to be read by picking out single chapters or discussions of poets that particularly interest its individual readers.

The Making of Barbara Pym - Oxford, the War Years, and Post-war Austerity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Emily Stockard The Making of Barbara Pym - Oxford, the War Years, and Post-war Austerity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Emily Stockard
R3,125 Discovery Miles 31 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Making of Barbara Pym offers new insights into Pym's formative years as a writer, during which she honed a complex view of the necessity of change on individual and cultural levels. Supported by newly published archival material, this comprehensive study of Pym's early work explores her personal and fictional pre-war and wartime writing, including unpublished and posthumously published works, before looking closely at Some Tame Gazelle and Excellent Women, published during Britain's post-war austerity period. Of central importance is a new recognition of Pym's use of social roles, particularly those of women, as proper avenues for change. The book traces how Pym came to devise characters whose individual development can be seen as analogous to or representative of larger cultural movements. Pym uses the spinster figure to embody the forward-looking cultural perspectives that she endorsed and then, finally, in Jane and Prudence, to figure the end of Britain's austerity period.

Imperial Beast Fables - Animals, Cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Kaori Nagai Imperial Beast Fables - Animals, Cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Kaori Nagai
R2,632 Discovery Miles 26 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book coins the term 'imperial beast fable' to explore modern forms of human-animal relationships and their origins in the British Empire. Taking as a starting point the long nineteenth-century fascination with non-European beast fables, it examines literary reworkings of these fables, such as Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books, in relation to the global politics of race, language, and species. The imperial beast fable figures variably as a key site where the nature and origins of mankind are hotly debated; an emerging space of conservation in which humans enclose animals to manage and control them; a cage in which an animal narrator talks to change its human jailors; and a vision of animal cosmopolitanism, in which a close kinship between humans and other animals is dreamt of. Written at the intersection of animal studies and postcolonial studies, this book proposes that the beast fable embodies the ideologies and values of the British Empire, while also covertly critiquing them. It therefore finds in the beast fable the possibility that the multitudinous animals it gives voice to might challenge the imperial networks which threaten their existence, both in the nineteenth century and today.

Against Marginalization - Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures (Hardcover): Jose O Fernandez Against Marginalization - Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures (Hardcover)
Jose O Fernandez
R2,906 Discovery Miles 29 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Origins of Transmedia Storytelling in Early Twentieth Century Adaptation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Alexis Weedon The Origins of Transmedia Storytelling in Early Twentieth Century Adaptation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Alexis Weedon
R2,887 Discovery Miles 28 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the significance of professional writers and their role in developing British storytelling in the 1920s and 1930s, and their influence on the poetics of today's transmedia storytelling. Modern techniques can be traced back to the early twentieth century when film, radio and television provided professional writers with new formats and revenue streams for their fiction. The book explores the contribution of four British authors, household names in their day, who adapted work for film, television and radio. Although celebrities between the wars, Clemence Dane, G.B. Stern, Hugh Walpole and A.E.W Mason have fallen from view. The popular playwright Dane, witty novelist Stern and raconteur Walpole have been marginalised for being German, Jewish, female or gay and Mason's contribution to film has been overlooked also. It argues that these and other vocational authors should be reassessed for their contribution to new media forms of storytelling. The book makes a significant contribution in the fields of media studies, adaptation studies, and the literary middlebrow.

Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War (Hardcover): Ralf Schneider, Jane Potter Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War (Hardcover)
Ralf Schneider, Jane Potter
R7,247 Discovery Miles 72 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The First World War has given rise to a multifaceted cultural production like no other historical event. This handbook surveys British literature and film about the war from 1914 until today. The continuing interest in World War I highlights the interdependence of war experience, the imaginative re-creation of that experience in writing, and individual as well as collective memory. In the first part of the handbook, the major genres of war writing and film are addressed, including of course poetry and the novel, but also the short story; furthermore, it is shown how our conception of the Great War is broadened when looked at from the perspective of gender studies and post-colonial criticism. The chapters in the second part present close readings of important contributions to the literary and filmic representation of World War I in Great Britain. All in all, the contributions demonstrate how the opposing forces of focusing and canon-formation on the one hand, and broadening and revision of the canon on the other, have characterised British literature and culture of the First World War.

Caves of Making (Hardcover): Philip Gross Caves of Making (Hardcover)
Philip Gross
R1,276 Discovery Miles 12 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides a sustained exploration of creativity. Philip Gross provides a poem, 'Cave diver in the deep reach', and an extended commentary on how the poem was written. These are followed by contributions from typographer Jeremy Tankard, whose unique 'Redisturbed' typeface is used throughout this book, and artist Rika Newcombe, who provides the cover image. Caves of making offers the textual equivalent of a creative festival - a festival on the page. It brings together the work of three remarkable creatives and offers, in their own words, insights into their creative process. Philip Gross is a writer of many parts - spanning poetry, thought-provoking fiction for young people, schools opera libretti, radio short stories and plays. Collaboration with the visual arts, dance, music and other art forms has been one of the sources of energy in his writing life. Jeremy Tankard has built a worldwide reputation for the high quality and unique designs of his typefaces. In the development of the Redisturbed typeface chosen for Caves of making, he wanted to take the idea of a unicase alphabet much further than previous experiments and treat it as a conventional text type.Rika Newcombe's paintings have an uncanny sympathy with the world of creative writing. Images from her work grace the covers of all books in the Creative Writing Studies series.

The Contemporary Small Press - Making Publishing Visible (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Georgina Colby, Kaja Marczewska, Leigh... The Contemporary Small Press - Making Publishing Visible (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Georgina Colby, Kaja Marczewska, Leigh Wilson
R3,624 Discovery Miles 36 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Contemporary Small Press: Making Publishing Visible addresses the contemporary literary small press in the US and UK from the perspective of a range of disciplines. Covering numerous aspects of small press publishing-poetry and fiction, children's publishing, the importance of ethical commitments, the relation to the mainstream, the attitudes of those working for presses, the role of the state in supporting presses-scholars from literary criticism, the sociology of literature and publishing studies demonstrate how a variety of approaches and methods are needed to fully understand the contemporary small press and its significance for literary studies and for broader literary culture.

Roth after Eighty - Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination (Hardcover): David Gooblar, Aimee Pozorski Roth after Eighty - Philip Roth and the American Literary Imagination (Hardcover)
David Gooblar, Aimee Pozorski; Contributions by David Brauner, Claudia Franziska Bruhwiler, Alex Calder, …
R3,168 R2,236 Discovery Miles 22 360 Save R932 (29%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Philip Roth scholars continue to reflect on what Philip Roth's retirement in 2012 means for the landscape of American literature and what his professed disappearance from the public eye in 2014 would mean for the future consideration of his legacy. This collection seeks to answer those questions in a scholarly way. Composed of eleven original essays written by accomplished scholars in the field of Philip Roth Studies, the collection is both relevant and engaging on three levels: it is the first of its kind to offer a scholarly retrospective of Roth's works and career; it considers Roth within the American literary imagination; and it speculates on Roth's legacy-particularly the enduring quality of his novels that will continue to resonate long after his retirement.

The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield - Volume 5: 1922 (Hardcover): Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield - Volume 5: 1922 (Hardcover)
Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott
R4,672 Discovery Miles 46 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The fifth and final volume of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield covers the almost thirteen months during which her attention at first was firmly set on a last chance medical cure, then finally on something very different--if death came to seem inevitable, how should one behave in the time that remained, so one could truly say one lived?
Mansfield's biographers, like her friends, have wondered at the seemingly extraordinary decision to ditch conventional medicine, for the bizarre choice of Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau. These letters show the clarity of mind and will that led to that decision, the courage and distress in making it, and the gaiety even once it was made. She went against what her education, her husband, and most of her friends would regard as reasonable, as she opted to spend her last months with Russian emigres and a strange assortment of Gurdjieff disciples (which she was not). But Fontainebleau give her the space and the incentive to shake free from the intellectualism that she thought the malaise of her time, as she worked at kitchen chores, took in the details of farm life, tried to learn Russian, and attempted to reach total honesty with herself. "If I were allowed one simple cry to God," she wrote in one of her last letters, "that cry would be I want to be REAL."

James Joyce in Zurich - A Guide (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Andreas Fischer James Joyce in Zurich - A Guide (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Andreas Fischer
R2,896 Discovery Miles 28 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers a comprehensive account of James Joyce and Zurich, one of the four cities (including Dublin, Trieste and Paris) in which he spent significant parts of his life. As a refugee during World War I, Joyce wrote a substantial part of Ulysses in Zurich and subsequently visited the city regularly during the 1930s. Finally, a refugee for the second time, he died there on 13 January 1941 and is buried in Fluntern Cemetery. This guide is conceived both as a book that may be read in its entirety or consulted selectively for specific information. An introduction and three chapters, Joyce in Zurich, Zurich in Joyce and Zurich after Joyce, are followed by sixty alphabetically ordered articles on people, places, institutions and events relevant to Joyce during his time in Zurich. Linked by cross-references and an index, they provide a rich, kaleidoscopic view of Joyce's Zurich.

Science Fiction Criticism - An Anthology of Essential Writings (Hardcover): Rob Latham Science Fiction Criticism - An Anthology of Essential Writings (Hardcover)
Rob Latham
R4,972 Discovery Miles 49 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics as: *Definitions and boundaries of the genre *The many forms of science fiction, from time travel to 'inner space' *Ideology and identity: from utopian fantasy to feminist, queer and environmental readings *The non-human: androids, aliens, cyborgs and animals *Race and the legacy of colonialism The volume also features annotated guides to further reading on these topics. Includes writings by: Marc Angenot, J.G. Ballard, Damien Broderick, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Samuel R. Delany, Philip K. Dick, Grace Dillon, Kodwo Eshun, Carl Freedman, Allison de Fren, Hugo Gernsback, Donna Haraway, N. Katherine Hayles, Robert A. Heinlein, Nalo Hopkinson, Veronica Hollinger, Fredric Jameson, Gwyneth Jones, Rob Latham, Roger Luckhurst, Judith Merril, John B. Michel, Wendy Pearson, John Rieder, Lysa Rivera, Joanna Russ, Mary Shelley, Stephen Hong Sohn, Susan Sontag, Bruce Sterling, Darko Suvin, Vernor Vinge, Sherryl Vint, H.G. Wells, David Wittenberg and Lisa Yaszek

Metafiction and the Postwar Novel - Foes, Ghosts, and Faces in the Water (Hardcover): Andrew Dean Metafiction and the Postwar Novel - Foes, Ghosts, and Faces in the Water (Hardcover)
Andrew Dean
R2,431 Discovery Miles 24 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Metafiction and the Postwar Novel is a full-length reassessment of one of the definitive literary forms of the postwar period, sometimes known as 'postmodern metafiction'. In the place of large-scale theorizing, this book centres on the intimacies of writing situations - metafiction as it responds to readers, literary reception, and earlier works in a career. The emergence of archival materials and posthumously published works helps to bring into view the stakes of different moments of writing. It develops new terms for discussing literary self-reflexivity, derived from a reading of Don Quixote and its reception by J.L. Borges - the 'self of writing' and the 'public author as signature'. Across three comprehensive chapters, Metafiction and Postwar Fiction shows how some of the most highly-regarded postwar writers were motivated to incorporate reflexive elements into their writing - and to what ends. The first chapter, on South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, shows with a new clarity how his fictions drew from and relativized academic literary theory and the conditions of writing in apartheid South Africa. The second chapter, on New Zealand writer Janet Frame, draws widely from her fictions, autobiographies, and posthumously published materials. It demonstrates the terms in which her writing addresses a readership seemingly convinced that her work expressed the interior experience of 'madness'. The final chapter, on American writer Philip Roth, shows how his early reception led to his later, and often explosive, reconsiderations of identity and literary value in postwar America.

Contemporary Women's Ghost Stories - Spectres, Revenants, Ghostly Returns (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Gina Wisker Contemporary Women's Ghost Stories - Spectres, Revenants, Ghostly Returns (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Gina Wisker
R3,129 Discovery Miles 31 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers new insights on socially and culturally engaged Gothic ghost stories by twentieth century and contemporary female writers; including Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, Ali Smith, Susan Hill, Catherine Lim, Kate Mosse, Daphne du Maurier, Helen Dunmore, Michele Roberts, and Zheng Cho. Through the ghostly body, possessions and visitations, women's ghost stories expose links between the political and personal, genocides and domestic tyrannies, providing unceasing reminders of violence and violations. Women, like ghosts, have historically lurked in the background, incarcerated in domestic spaces and roles by familial and hereditary norms. They have been disenfranchised legally and politically, sold on dreams of romance and domesticity. Like unquiet spirits that cannot be silenced, women's ghost stories speak the unspeakable, revealing these contradictions and oppressions. Wisker's book demonstrates that in terms of women's ghost stories, there is much to point the spectral finger at and much to speak out about.

The Existential and its Exits - Literary and Philosophical Perspectives on the Works of Beckett, Ionesco, Genet and Pinter... The Existential and its Exits - Literary and Philosophical Perspectives on the Works of Beckett, Ionesco, Genet and Pinter (Hardcover)
L.A.C. Dobrez
R4,599 Discovery Miles 45 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book fills a significant gap in modern critical studies. Hitherto, there has been no considered attempt to relate Existentialist thought to contemporary literature - and this is precisely what Dr Dobrez achieves, taking four leading writers and discussing their work in relation to Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre. Readers will find this account enlightening in its discussion of Existentialism itself and its application of Existentialist principles in modern literature. Thus this book will be of great value to students of both contemporary literature and modern philosophy.

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space - Style, Landscape, Perception (Hardcover): David James Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space - Style, Landscape, Perception (Hardcover)
David James
R4,920 Discovery Miles 49 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a rigorous but accessible account of the interface between landscape and style and form in contemporary British fiction.This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with aesthetic form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape depiction as a catalyst for stylistic innovation. James considers the work of over fifteen major British novelists to offer a wide-ranging and accessible commentary on the relationship between landscape and narrative design, while showing that our approach to those spaces mapped by contemporary fiction cannot be divorced from the emotional aspects of reading itself.Moving between established and emerging novelists, the book reveals that spatial poetics allow us to chart distinctive and surprising affinities between practitioners, demonstrating how writers today compel us to pay close attention to technique when linking the depiction of physical places to new developments in novelistic craft.

Authorizing Superhero Comics - On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre (Hardcover): Daniel Stein Authorizing Superhero Comics - On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre (Hardcover)
Daniel Stein
R3,601 Discovery Miles 36 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature (Hardcover, New): Lawrence Normand, Alison Winch Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature (Hardcover, New)
Lawrence Normand, Alison Winch
R4,582 Discovery Miles 45 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature" explores the ways in which 20th-century literature has been influenced by Buddhism, and has been, in turn, a major factor in bringing about Buddhism's increasing spread and influence in the West. Focussing on Britain and the United States, Buddhism's influence on a range of key literary texts will be examined in the context of those societies' evolving modernity. Writers discussed include T. S. Eliot, Hermann Hesse, Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, J. D. Salinger, Iris Murdoch, Maxine Hong Kingston. This book brings together for the first time a series of context-rich interpretations that demonstrate the importance of literature in this ongoing cultural change in Britain and the United States.

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