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The Writer Written - The Artist and Creation in the New Literatures in English (Hardcover)
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The Writer Written - The Artist and Creation in the New Literatures in English (Hardcover)
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Few people are so widely read within Commonwealth literature or are
so knowledgeable about so many different cultures as Jean-Pierre
Durix. . . . The first part of the book deals with general,
theoretical themes (e.g., the writer as teacher), while the second
contains studies of single novels by such writers as Patrick White,
C.K. Stead, and Salmon Rushdie; here Durix is at his best. Choice
Exploring the relationship between the writer and his craft,
between the artist and society, between the creator and his
conception of creation, this fascinating study takes up various key
positions represented by major writers from Africa, Australia,
Canada, the Caribbean, India, New Zealand, and the South Pacific,
and examines the practice of literature, which is frequently
concerned with a search for problematic roots and authenticity in
its relation with didacticism, social concern, language and myth.
The distinctively comparative approach brings together a series of
close textual studies and examines four examples of metafiction
from which emerge a number of specific features characteristic of
literatures born out of Colonialism and its aftermath. Seen in this
perspective, literary scholarship provides an irreplaceable point
of view from which to assess the role of the imagination in
multi-cultural societies.
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