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Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English: Art of
Crisis considers the phenomenon of the continued relevance of
collage, a form established over a hundred years ago, to
contemporary literature. It argues that collage is a perfect
artistic vehicle to represent the crisis-ridden reality of the
twenty-first-century. Being a mixture of fragmentary incompatible
voices, collage embodies the chaos of the media-dominated world.
Examining the artistic, sociopolitical and personal crises
addressed in contemporary collage literature, the book argues that
the 21st Century has brought a revival of collage-like novels and
essays.
Collage in Twenty-First-Century Literature in English: Art of
Crisis considers the phenomenon of the continued relevance of
collage, a form established over a hundred years ago, to
contemporary literature. It argues that collage is a perfect
artistic vehicle to represent the crisis-ridden reality of the
twenty-first-century. Being a mixture of fragmentary incompatible
voices, collage embodies the chaos of the media-dominated world.
Examining the artistic, sociopolitical and personal crises
addressed in contemporary collage literature, the book argues that
the 21st Century has brought a revival of collage-like novels and
essays.
The authors of this volume discuss the tangible need for a revision
of the vocabulary of emotion used in literary criticism and culture
studies. The articles offer a wide range of interdisciplinary
approaches to emotional states such as love, shame, grief,
nostalgia and trauma. They demonstrate that the once stable concept
of emotion disintegrates in the course of re-evaluation and is
replaced by such notions as affects, passions, feelings and
emotions. This volume examines the representations of emotion in
drama, poetry and prose - from the anonymous Court of Love (ca.
1500) to Ali Smith's How to Be Both (2014) - as well as in life
writing, music, the visual arts and theology.
Despite the vast body of texts inspired by warfare - from The Iliad
to Maus - war writing is perpetually haunted by the notions of
unrepresentability and inadequacy. War and Words examines the
methods, conventions and pitfalls of constructing verbal accounts
of military conflict in literature and the media. This multifocal
study draws on a wide array of theoretical perspectives, including
feminism, posthumanism, masculinity, trauma, spatiality and media
studies, and brings together such diverse material as canonical
literature, war veterans' testimonies, imaginative fiction,
computer games, English curricula, and Al-Qaeda's propaganda
pieces. In five consecutive sections - "Spreading War Propaganda",
"Reconstructing War Spaces", "Envisioning War", "Gendering War",
and "Teaching War" - the contributors consider war in its manifold
aspects: as an ideological tool used for propaganda purposes, as a
spatial reconstruction performed for the critical reassessment of
past conflicts, as a projection (or extrapolation) of possible
future conflicts and their social repercussions, as a political
statement to deconstruct the oppressive nature of violence, and,
finally, as a didactic tool to foster empathy. This collection will
appeal primarily to academics specialising in English and American
literature, but also to those researching media, gender, and game
studies.
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