Critifiction

Author : Raymond Federman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791416798

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This book examines how, beginning in the 1960s up to the present, a new type of fiction was created in America, but also in Europe and Latin America, in response to the cultural, social, and political turmoil of the time. The author has coined the term "Surfiction" for this New Fiction. Written in an informal, provocative style, by an internationally known practitioner, these essays examine the cultural, social, and political conditions that forced serious writers to reflect (often within the work itself) on the act of writing fiction in the modern world. The entire book can be read as a manifesto for the present and future of the new fiction. This book is the first in the SUNY series in Postmodern Culture, edited by Joseph Natoli.

Author : Raymond Federman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438402437

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Critifiction by Raymond Federman Pdf

This book examines how, beginning in the 1960s up to the present, a new type of fiction was created in America, but also in Europe and Latin America, in response to the cultural, social, and political turmoil of the time. The author has coined the term "Surfiction" for this New Fiction. Written in an informal, provocative style, by an internationally known practitioner, these essays examine the cultural, social, and political conditions that forced serious writers to reflect (often within the work itself) on the act of writing fiction in the modern world. The entire book can be read as a manifesto for the present and future of the new fiction. This book is the first in the SUNY series in Postmodern Culture, edited by Joseph Natoli.

Author : Mirjam Horn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110379105

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Postmodern Plagiarisms by Mirjam Horn Pdf

This monograph takes on the question of how literary plagiarism is defined, exposed, and sanctioned in Western culture and how appropriating language assigned to another author can be considered a radical subversive act in postmodern US-American literature. While various forms of art such as music, painting, or theater have come to institutionalize appropriation as a valid mode to ventilate what authorship, originality, and the anxiety of influence may mean, the literary sphere still has a hard time acknowledging the unmarked acquisition of words, ideas, and manuscripts. The author shows how postmodern plagiarism in particular serves as a literary strategy of appropriation at the interface between literary economics, law, and theoretical discourses of literature. She investigates the complex expectations surrounding the strong link between an individual author subject and its alienable text, a link that several postmodern writers powerfully question and violate. Identifying three distinct practices of postmodern plagiarism, the book examines their specific situatedness, precepts, and subversive potential as litmus tests for the literary market, and the ongoing dynamic notion of the concepts authorship, originality, and creativity.

Author : Christy Wampole,Jason Childs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009080415

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The Cambridge History of the American Essay by Christy Wampole,Jason Childs Pdf

From the country's beginning, essayists in the United States have used their prose to articulate the many ways their individuality has been shaped by the politics, social life, and culture of this place. The Cambridge History of the American Essay offers the fullest account to date of this diverse and complex history. From Puritan writings to essays by Indigenous authors, from Transcendentalist and Pragmatist texts to Harlem Renaissance essays, from New Criticism to New Journalism: The story of the American essay is told here, beginning in the early eighteenth century and ending with the vibrant, heterogeneous scene of contemporary essayistic writing. The essay in the US has taken many forms: nature writing, travel writing, the genteel tradition, literary criticism, hybrid genres such as the essay film and the photo essay. Across genres and identities, this volume offers a stirring account of American essayism into the twenty-first century.

Author : Christian Moraru,Andrei Terian,Alexandru Matei
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501358975

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Theory in the "Post" Era by Christian Moraru,Andrei Terian,Alexandru Matei Pdf

Theory in the "Post" Era brings together the work and perspectives of a group of Romanian theorists who discuss the morphings of contemporary theory in what the editors call the “post” era. Since the Cold War's end and especially in the third millennium, theorists have been exploring the aftermath - and sometimes just the “after” - of whole paradigms, the crisis or “passing” of anthropocentrism, the twilight of an entire ontological and cultural “condition,” as well as the corresponding rise of an antagonist model, of an “anti,” “meta,” or “neo” alternative, with examples ranging from “posthumanism” and “post-postmodernism” to “post-aesthetics,” “postanalog” interpretation or “digicriticism,” “post-presentism,” “post-memory,” “post-“ or “neo-critique,” and so forth. It is no coincidence, the contributors to this volume argue, that this “post” moment is also a time when theory is practiced as a world genre. If theory has always been a “worlded” enterprise, a quintessentially communal, cross-cultural and international project, this is truer at present than ever. Perhaps more than other humanist constituencies, today's theorists work and belong in a theory commons that is transnational if still uneven economically, politically, and otherwise. Theory in the "Post" Era reports the results of Romanian theory experiments that join efforts made in other places to foster a theory for the “post” age.

Author : Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438433837

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Federman's Fictions by Jeffrey R. Di Leo Pdf

This collection of essays offers an authoritative examination and appraisal of the French-American novelist Raymond Federman's many contributions to humanities scholarship, including Holocaust studies, Beckett studies, translation studies, experimental fiction, postmodernism, and autobiography. Although known primarily as a novelist, Federman (1928–2009) is also the author of numerous books of poetry, essays, translations, and criticism. After emigrating to the United States in 1942 and receiving a Ph.D. in comparative literature at UCLA in 1957, he held professorships in the University at Buffalo's departments of French and English from 1964 to 1999. Together with Steve Katz and Ronald Sukenick, he was one of the original founders of the Fiction Collective, a nonprofit publishing house dedicated to avant garde, experimental prose. Far too many accounts treat Federman as merely a member of a small group of writers who pioneered "metafictional" or "postmodern" American literature. Federman's Fiction will introduce (or, for some, reintroduce) to the broader scholarly community a creative and daring thinker whose work is significant not just to considerations of the development of innovative fiction, but to a number of other distinct disciplines and emerging critical discourses.

Author : Rob Allen,Thijs van den Berg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134492121

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Serialization in Popular Culture by Rob Allen,Thijs van den Berg Pdf

From prime-time television shows and graphic novels to the development of computer game expansion packs, the recent explosion of popular serials has provoked renewed interest in the history and economics of serialization, as well as the impact of this cultural form on readers, viewers, and gamers. In this volume, contributors—literary scholars, media theorists, and specialists in comics, graphic novels, and digital culture—examine the economic, narratological, and social effects of serials from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century and offer some predictions of where the form will go from here.

Author : Kathryn Hume
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801462887

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Aggressive Fictions by Kathryn Hume Pdf

A frequent complaint against contemporary American fiction is that too often it puts off readers in ways they find difficult to fathom. Books such as Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, and Don DeLillo's Underworld seem determined to upset, disgust, or annoy their readers—or to disorient them by shunning traditional plot patterns and character development. Kathryn Hume calls such works "aggressive fiction." Why would authors risk alienating their readers—and why should readers persevere? Looking beyond the theory-based justifications that critics often provide for such fiction, Hume offers a commonsense guide for the average reader who wants to better understand and appreciate books that might otherwise seem difficult to enjoy. In her reliable and sympathetic guide, Hume considers roughly forty works of recent American fiction, including books by William Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Chuck Palahniuk, and Cormac McCarthy. Hume gathers "attacks" on the reader into categories based on narrative structure and content. Writers of some aggressive fictions may wish to frustrate easy interpretation or criticism. Others may try to induce certain responses in readers. Extreme content deployed as a tactic for distancing and alienating can actually produce a contradictory effect: for readers who learn to relax and go with the flow, the result may well be exhilaration rather than revulsion.

Author : Bettina Brandt,Valentina Glajar
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496209306

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Herta Müller by Bettina Brandt,Valentina Glajar Pdf

Two languages--German and Romanian--inform the novels, essays, and collage poetry of Nobel laureate Herta Müller. Describing her writing as "autofictional," Müller depicts the effects of violence, cruelty, and terror on her characters based on her own experiences in Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceau?escu regime. Herta Müller: Politics and Aesthetics explores Müller's writings from different literary, cultural, and historical perspectives. Part 1 features Müller's Nobel lecture, five new collage poems, and an interview with Ernest Wichner, a German-Romanian author who has traveled with her and sheds light on her writing. Parts 2 and 3, featuring essays by scholars from across Europe and the United States, address the political and poetical aspects of Müller's texts. Contributors discuss life under the Romanian Communist dictatorship while also stressing key elements of Müller's poetics, which promises both self-conscious formal experimentation and political intervention. One of the first books in English to thoroughly examine Müller's writing, this volume addresses audiences with an interest in dissident, exile, migration, experimental, and transnational literature.

Author : V. Theile,L. Tredennick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137010490

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New Formalisms and Literary Theory by V. Theile,L. Tredennick Pdf

Bringing together scholars who have critically followed New Formalism's journey through time, space, and learning environment, this collection of essays both solidifies and consolidates New Formalism as a burgeoning field of literary criticism and explicates its potential as a varied but viable methodology of contemporary critical theory.

Author : Mike Gane,Nicholas Gane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000109353973

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Umberto Eco by Mike Gane,Nicholas Gane Pdf

Author : M. Cornis-Pope
Publisher : Springer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781403970039

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Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After by M. Cornis-Pope Pdf

Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting undertakes a systematic study of postmodernism's responses to the polarized ideologies of the postwar period that have held cultures hostage to a confrontation between rival ideologies abroad and a clash between champions of uniformity and disruptive others at home. Considering a broad range of narrative projects and approaches (from polysystemic fiction to surfiction, postmodern feminism, and multicultural/postcolonial fiction), this book highlights their solutions to ontological division (real vs. imaginary, wordly and other-worldly), sociocultural oppositions (of race, class, gender) and narratological dualities (imitation vs. invention, realism vs. formalism). A thorough rereading of the best experimental work published in the US since the mid-1960s reveals the fact that innovative fiction has been from the beginning concerned with redefining the relationship between history and fiction, narrative and cultural articulation. Stepping back from traditional polarizations, innovative novelists have tried to envision an alternative history of irreducible particularities, excluded middles, and creative intercrossings.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000093092108

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New Novel Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : K. K. Ruthven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521669650

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Faking Literature by K. K. Ruthven Pdf

Faking Literature, first published in 2001, examines the role of forgery in literature.

Author : Owen F. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015045680777

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Fluxus by Owen F. Smith Pdf