Anglophone Verse Novels As Gutter Texts

Author : Dirk Wiemann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501399510

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Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts by Dirk Wiemann Pdf

Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts draws on the notion of the 'gutter' in graphic narratives – the gap between panels that a reader has to imaginatively fill to generate narrative sequence – to analyse the largely overlooked literary form of the verse novel. Marked at all levels by the tense constellation of segment and sequence, and a conspicuously 'gappy' texture, verse novels offer productive alternatives to the dominant prose novel in contemporary fiction, where a similar 'gappiness' has become a hallmark, as illustrated by the loosely interlaced multi-strand plot structures of influential 'world novels' (Bolaño, Mitchell, Powers). The verse novel is a form particularly prolific in the postcolonial world and among diasporic or minoritarian writers in the Global North. This study concentrates on two of the most prominent areas in which verse novels distinguish themselves from the prose novel to read texts by Derek Walcott, Anne Carson, Bernardine Evaristo, Patience Agbabi and others: In 'planetary' verse novels from the Caribbean, Canada, Samoa and Hawai'i, the central trope of the volcano evokes a world in constant un/making; while post-national verse novels, particularly in Britain, modify the established paradigms of imagined communities. Dirk Wiemann's study speculates whether the resurgence of verse novels correlates with the apprehension of inhabiting a world that has become unpredictable and dangerous but also promising: a 'post-prosaic' world.

Author : Benjamin Kohlmann,Ivana Perica
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501399329

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The Political Uses of Literature by Benjamin Kohlmann,Ivana Perica Pdf

Drawing on a global history of politicized writing, this book explores literature's utility as a mode of activism and aesthetic engagement with the political challenges of the current moment. The question of literature's 'uses' has recently become a key topic of academic and public debate. Paradoxically, however, these conversations often tend to bypass the rich history of engagements with literature's distinctly political uses that form such a powerful current of 20th- and 21st-century artistic production and critical-theoretical reflection. The Political Uses of Literature reopens discussion of literature's political and activist genealogies along several interrelated lines: As a foundational moment, it draws attention to the important body of interwar politicized literature and to debates about literature's ability to intervene in social reality. It then traces the mobilization of related conversations and artistic practices across several historical conjunctures, most notably the committed literature of the 1960s and our own present. In mapping out these geographically and artistically diverse traditions – including case studies from the Americas, Europe, Africa, India and Russia – contributors advance critical discussions in the field, making questions pertaining to politicized art newly compelling to a broader and more diverse readership. Most importantly, this volume insists on the need to think about literature's political uses today – at a time when it has become increasingly difficult to imagine any kind of political efficacy for art, even as the need to do so is growing more and more acute. Literature may not proffer easy answers to our political problems, but as this collection suggests, the writing of the 20th century holds out aesthetic resources for a renewed engagement with the dilemmas that face us now.

Author : Jane Hiddleston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350022812

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Writing After Postcolonialism by Jane Hiddleston Pdf

'Focusing on francophone writing from North Africa as it has developed since the 1980s, Writing After Postcolonialism explores the extent to which the notion of 'postcolonialism' is still resonant for literary writers a generation or more after independence, and examines the troubled status of literature in society and politics during this period. Whilst analysing the ways in which writers from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia have reacted to political unrest and social dissatisfaction, Jane Hiddleston offers a compelling reflection on literature's ability to interrogate the postcolonial nation as well as on its own uncertain role in the current context. The book sets out both to situate the recent generation of francophone writers in North Africa in relation to contemporary politics, to postcolonial theory, and evolving notions of 'world literature, and to probe the ways in which a new and highly sophisticated set of writers reflect on the very notion of 'the literary' during this period of transition.'

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015043561128

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The Academy and Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2650109

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Academy; a Weekly Review of Literature, Learning, Science and Art by Anonim Pdf

The Poetical gazette; the official organ of the Poetry society and a review of poetical affairs, nos. 4-7 issued as supplements to the Academy, v. 79, Oct. 15, Nov. 5, Dec. 3 and 31, 1910

Author : John Wilkinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350093935

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Lyric In Its Times by John Wilkinson Pdf

In this important new intervention, leading poet and critic John Wilkinson explores the material life of the lyric poem. How does the lyric – considered as an object, as an event – grapple with permanence and impermanence, the rhythms of change and the passing of time? Drawing on new insights from contemporary philosophy and object-oriented ontology, psychoanalysis and the visual arts, The Lyric in Its Times includes innovative and insightful new readings of work by a wide range of lyric poets, from Shakespeare, Blake and Shelley to Charles Baudelaire, Frank O'Hara and J.H. Prynne.

Author : Jenni Ramone
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441128164

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Salman Rushdie and Translation by Jenni Ramone Pdf

Salman Rushdie's writing is engaged with translation in many ways: translator-figures tell and retell stories in his novels, while acts of translation are catalysts for climactic events. Covering his major novels as well as his often-neglected short stories and writing for children, Salman Rushdie and Translation explores the role of translation in Rushdie's work. In this book, Jenni Ramone draws on contemporary translation theory to analyse the part translation plays in Rushdie's appropriation of historical and contemporary Indian narratives of independence and migration.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Art
ISBN : HARVARD:32044092859370

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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Art
ISBN : UIUC:30112042409828

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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101065266239

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The Academy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dr Gaby Mahlberg,Prof Dr Dirk Wiemann
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472405135

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European Contexts for English Republicanism by Dr Gaby Mahlberg,Prof Dr Dirk Wiemann Pdf

European Contexts for English Republicanism offers new perspectives on early modern English republicanism through its focus on the Continental reception of and engagement with seventeenth-century English thinkers and political events. Looking both at political ideas and at the people that shaped them, the collection examines English republican thought in its wider European context during the later seventeenth and eighteenth century. In a number of case studies, the contributors assess the different ways in which English republican ideas were not only shaped by the thought of the ancients, but also by contemporary authors from all over Europe, such as Hugo Grotius or Christoph Besold. They demonstrate that English republican thinkers did not only act in dialogue with Continental authors and scholars, their ideas in turn also left a long-lasting legacy in Europe as they were received, transformed and put to new uses by thinkers in France, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and Poland. Far from being an exclusively transatlantic affair, as much of the established scholarship suggests, English republican thought also left its legacy on the European Continent, finding its way into wider debates about the rights and wrongs of the English Civil War and the nature of government, while later translations of English republican works also influenced the key thinkers of the French Revolution and the liberals of the nineteenth century. Bringing together a range of fresh and original essays by British and European scholars in the field of early modern intellectual history and English studies, this collection of essays revises a one-sided approach to English republicanism and widens the scope of study beyond linguistic and national boundaries by looking at English republicans and their continental networks and legacy.

Author : Peter Carravetta
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501363665

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Language at the Boundaries by Peter Carravetta Pdf

Is poetry still relevant today, or is it merely a dwindling historical art? How have poets of the recent past dealt with challenges to poetics? Seeking to chart the poetic act in a period not so much hostile as indifferent to poetry, Language at the Boundaries outlines spaces where poetry and poetics emerge in migration, translation, world literature, canon formation, and the history of science and technology. One can only come so close to fully possessing or explaining everything about the poetic act, and this book grapples with these limits by perusing, analyzing, deconstructing, and reconstructing creativity, implementing different approaches in doing so. Peter Carravetta consolidates historical epistemological positions that have accrued over the last several decades, some spurred by the modernism/postmodernism debate, and unpacks their differences--juxtaposing Vico with Heidegger and applying the approaches of translation studies, decolonization, indigeneity, committed literature, and critical race theory, among others. What emerges is a defense and theory of poetics in the contemporary world, engaging the topic in a dialectic mode and seeking grounds of agreement.

Author : Barbara Goff
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781780934662

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'Your Secret Language' by Barbara Goff Pdf

This book is the first to examine the complex and contradictory history of Classics in Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria. It investigates how Classical Studies, as an integral part of colonial education, enforced a notion of cultural inferiority on African subjects, but conversely played an enabling role in nationalist expression. The enquiry is structured around three main questions: how Classics contributed to the formation of a new class of Europeanising West Africans in the late 19th century; how Classics was implicated in the ideological struggles of the early twentieth century over the desirability of 'practical' or 'agricultural' education; and how the uses of Classics changed in the years leading up to independence.

Author : Joseph Acquisto
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501355240

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Poetry's Knowing Ignorance by Joseph Acquisto Pdf

What kind of knowledge, if any, does poetry provide? Poets make poems, but they also make meaning and craft a kind of learned and creative ignorance as they provide infinitely revisable answers to the question of what poetry is. That question of poetry's definition invites broader ones about the relationship of poetry to other lived experience. Poetry thus implies something like a way of life that is resistant to definitive statements and conclusions, and the creation of communities of readers and writers that live in ever-renewed questioning. To resist concluding is to embrace a kind of productive ignorance, a knowledge that is first and foremost aware of poetic knowledge's own limits. Poetry's Knowing Ignorance shows, through an examination of French poetry, how it is this dialogue in response to a constant questioning, to an answer-turned-question, that continues to blur the boundary between poetry and writing about poetry, between poetry and criticism, and between poetry and other kinds of experience.

Author : Jonathan Dil
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350270565

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Haruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy by Jonathan Dil Pdf

Haruki Murakami, a global literary phenomenon, has said that he started writing fiction as a means of self-therapy. What he has not discussed as much is what he needed self-therapy for. This book argues that by understanding more about why Murakami writes, and by linking this with the question of how he writes, readers can better understand what he writes. Murakami's fiction, in other words, can be read as a search for self-therapy. In five chapters which explore Murakami's fourteen novels to date, this book argues that there are four prominent therapeutic threads woven through Murakami's fiction that can be traced back to his personal traumas - most notably Murakami's falling out with his late father and the death of a former girlfriend – and which have also transcended them in significant ways as they have been transformed into literary fiction. The first thread looks at the way melancholia must be worked through for mourning to occur and healing to happen; the second thread looks at how symbolic acts of sacrifice can help to heal intergenerational trauma; the third thread looks at the way people with avoidant attachment styles can begin to open themselves up to love again; the fourth thread looks at how individuation can manifest as a response to nihilism. Meticulously researched and written with sensitivity, the result is a sophisticated exploration of Murakami's published novels as an evolving therapeutic project that will be of great value to all scholars of Japanese literature and culture.