Chronotopes of the Uncanny - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chronotopes of the Uncanny write by Petra Eckhard. This book was released on 2014-03-31. Chronotopes of the Uncanny available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using the theoretical frameworks of Freud, Todorov, and Bahktin, this book explores how American writers of the late 20th century have translated the psychoanalytical concept of »the uncanny« into their novelistic discourses. The two texts under scrutiny - Paul Auster's »City of Glass« and Toni Morrison's »Jazz« - show that the uncanny has developed into a crucial trope to delineate personal and collective fears that are often grounded on the postmodern disruption of spatio-temporal continuities and coherences.
Landscapes of Postmodernity
Landscapes of Postmodernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscapes of Postmodernity write by Petra Eckhard. This book was released on 2010. Landscapes of Postmodernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Landscapes of Postmodernity, a group of young scholars link key concepts of postmodern thought to our present everyday experience in which we change our identities on a regular basis. While many of the essays look at less conventional modes of aesthetic representation - computer games, graphic novels, telenovelas, queer and animated films - others analyze more canonical works following less conventional approaches. Either way, the cultural and literary cartographies presented in this book allow America to be conceived as polymorphous or transnational, celebrating a new American self that is aware and proud of its non-Anglo-Saxon origins.
Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark
Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark write by Michael Gardiner. This book was released on 2010-07-06. Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Companion brings together an international 'Brodie set' of critics to trace the history, impact, reception and major themes of Spark's work, from her early poetry to her last novel. It encompasses the range of Spark's output, pursuing contextual lines of approach including biography, geography, gender, identity, nation and religion, and considering her legacy and continuing influence in the twenty-first century. Spark emerges here as a serious thinker on issues as diverse as the Welfare State, secularisation, decolonisation, and anti-psychiatry, and a writer whose work may be placed alongside Proust, Joyce, Nabokov, and Lessing. The critics collected here are mindful of how, although overwhelmingly known as a novelist, by the time of her first novel, The Comforters, in 1957, Spark already had a significant profile through poetry, biographical criticism, and literary journalism, as chair of the Poetry Society and editor of the Poetry Review, and as author or co-author of a number of scholarly studies of writers including Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, the Brontes, Cardinal Newman, and John Masefield. Within a relatively modest space this Companion touches on the whole range of Spark's work and, in introducing the oeuvre thematically for those looking to explore this elegant and challenging author further, also sets the agenda for future Spark studies.
Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries write by Christoph Reinfandt. This book was released on 2017-06-12. Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Handbook systematically charts the trajectory of the English novel from its emergence as the foremost literary genre in the early twentieth century to its early twenty-first century status of eccentric eminence in new media environments. Systematic chapters address ̒The English Novel as a Distinctly Modern Genreʼ, ̒The Novel in the Economy’, ̒Genres’, ̒Gender’ (performativity, masculinities, feminism, queer), and ̒The Burden of Representationʼ (class and ethnicity). Extended contextualized close readings of more than twenty key texts from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) to Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island (2015) supplement the systematic approach and encourage future research by providing overviews of reception and theoretical perspectives.
Haunting Prison
Haunting Prison - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Haunting Prison write by Tea Fredriksson. This book was released on 2023-04-27. Haunting Prison available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through a study of ten commercially published prison autobiographies, Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution unveils how prison is narrativized and socially represented as an abject and uncanny institution, shedding new light on what prison is and does in Western carceral imaginations.
