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This ambitious and wide-ranging essay collection analyses how
identity and form intersect in twentieth- and twenty-first century
literature. It revises and deconstructs the binary oppositions
identity-form, content-form and body-mind through discussions of
the role of the author in the interpretation of literary texts, the
ways in which writers bypass or embrace identity politics and the
function of identity and the body in form. Essays tackle these
issues from a number of positions, including identity categories
such as (dis)ability, gender, race and sexuality, as well as
questioning these categories themselves. Essayists look at both
identity as form and form as identity. Although identity and form
are both staples of current research on contemporary literature,
they rarely meet in the way this collection allows. Authors studied
include Beryl Bainbridge, Samuel Beckett, John Berryman, Brigid
Brophy, Angela Carter, J.M. Coetzee, Anne Enright, William
Faulkner, Mark Haddon, Ted Hughes, Kazuo Ishiguro, B.S. Johnson,
A.L. Kennedy, Toby Litt, Hilary Mantel, Andrea Levy, Robert Lowell,
Ian McEwan, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Oswald, Sylvia Plath, Jeremy
Reed, Anne Sexton, Edith Sitwell, Wallace Stevens, Jeremy Reed,
Jeanette Winterson and Virginia Woolf. The book engages with key
theoretical approaches to twentieth- and twenty-first century
literature of the last twenty years while at the same time
advancing new frameworks that enable readers to reconsider the
identity and form conundrum. In both its choice of texts and
diverse approaches, it will be of interest to those working on
English and American Literatures, gender studies, queer studies,
disability studies, postcolonial literature, and literature and
philosophy.
This ambitious and wide-ranging essay collection analyses how
identity and form intersect in twentieth- and twenty-first century
literature. It revises and deconstructs the binary oppositions
identity-form, content-form and body-mind through discussions of
the role of the author in the interpretation of literary texts, the
ways in which writers bypass or embrace identity politics and the
function of identity and the body in form. Essays tackle these
issues from a number of positions, including identity categories
such as (dis)ability, gender, race and sexuality, as well as
questioning these categories themselves. Essayists look at both
identity as form and form as identity. Although identity and form
are both staples of current research on contemporary literature,
they rarely meet in the way this collection allows. Authors studied
include Beryl Bainbridge, Samuel Beckett, John Berryman, Brigid
Brophy, Angela Carter, J.M. Coetzee, Anne Enright, William
Faulkner, Mark Haddon, Ted Hughes, Kazuo Ishiguro, B.S. Johnson,
A.L. Kennedy, Toby Litt, Hilary Mantel, Andrea Levy, Robert Lowell,
Ian McEwan, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Oswald, Sylvia Plath, Jeremy
Reed, Anne Sexton, Edith Sitwell, Wallace Stevens, Jeremy Reed,
Jeanette Winterson and Virginia Woolf. The book engages with key
theoretical approaches to twentieth- and twenty-first century
literature of the last twenty years while at the same time
advancing new frameworks that enable readers to reconsider the
identity and form conundrum. In both its choice of texts and
diverse approaches, it will be of interest to those working on
English and American Literatures, gender studies, queer studies,
disability studies, postcolonial literature, and literature and
philosophy.
This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain's
most famous living director, Pedro Almodovar. It shows how
Almodovar's films draw on various national cinemas and genres,
including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema,
Hollywood melodrama and film noir. It also argues that Almodovar's
work is a form of social critique, his films consistently engaging
with and challenging stereotypes about traditional and contemporary
Spain in order to address Spain's traumatic historical past and how
it continues to inform the present. Drawing on scholarship in both
English and Spanish, the book will be of interest to undergraduate
and postgraduate students of film studies and Hispanic studies,
scholars of contemporary cinema and general readers with a passion
for the films of Pedro Almodovar. -- .
This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain's
most famous living director, Pedro Almodovar. It shows how
Almodovar's films draw on various national cinemas and genres,
including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema,
Hollywood melodrama and film noir. It also argues that Almodovar's
work is a form of social critique, his films consistently engaging
with and challenging stereotypes about traditional and contemporary
Spain in order to address Spain's traumatic historical past and how
it continues to inform the present. Drawing on scholarship in both
English and Spanish, the book will be of interest to undergraduate
and postgraduate students of film studies and Hispanic studies,
scholars of contemporary cinema and general readers with a passion
for the films of Pedro Almodovar. -- .
European Intertexts is the first fruit of an ongoing collaborative
study aiming to challenge the isolationism of much critical work on
English literature by exploring the interdependence of English and
continental European literatures in writing by women. While later
volumes will deal with specific texts, this introductory volume
provides a descriptive framework and a theoretical basis for
studies in the field. Covering issues such as the role of English
as a world language, the definition of 'Europe', and the current
state of Translation Studies, the book also surveys theories of
intertextuality and demonstrates intertextual links between written
and visual and film texts. This book is itself pioneering in making
a systematic approach to women's writings in English in the context
of other European cultures. Although Europe is a political reality,
this cultural interpenetration remains largely unexamined, and
these essays represent an important first step towards revealing
that unexplored richness.
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