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Tobias Doering uses Postcolonialism as a backdrop to examine and
question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry,
adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their
relevance to, and modification by, the Caribbean experience.
Caribbean-English Passages opens an innovative and cross-cultural
perspective, in which familiar oppositions of colonial/white versus
postcolonial/black writing are deconstructed. English identity is
thereby questioned by this colonial contact, and Caribbean-English
writing radically redraws the map of world literature. This book is
essential reading for students of Postcolonial Literature at both
undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Tobias Döring uses Postcolonialism as a backdrop to examine and question the traditional genres of travel writing, nature poetry, adventure tales, autobiography and the epic, assessing their relevance to, and modification by, the Caribbean experience. Caribbean-English Passages opens an innovative and cross-cultural perspective, in which familiar oppositions of colonial/white versus postcolonial/black writing are deconstructed. English identity is thereby questioned by this colonial contact, and Caribbean-English writing radically redraws the map of world literature. This book is essential reading for students of Postcolonial Literature at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. eBook available with sample pages: 0203166906
Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines and countries,
Thomas Mann and Shakespeare is the first book-length study to
explore the always fascinating, if sometimes disturbing,
connections between Shakespeare and Mann. It establishes startling
resonances between the central works of these two authors, pairing,
for instance, Der Zauberberg with The Tempest, Der Tod in Venedig
with The Merchant of Venice, Tonio Kroeger with Othello and Love's
Labour's Lost with Doktor Faustus. Showing how the conjunction of
Shakespeare and Mann affords new, alternative perspectives on
fundamental issues such as modernity, irony, art, desire,
authorship and religion, Thomas Mann and Shakespeare challenges the
increasingly walled-in specialism of literary topics and
periodization and demonstrates the scope for new ways of reading in
literary studies.
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