Origin And Ellipsis In The Writing Of Hilary Mantel

Author : Eileen Pollard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429535819

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Origin and Ellipsis in the Writing of Hilary Mantel by Eileen Pollard Pdf

Origin and Ellipsis in the Writing of Hilary Mantel provokes a re-engagement with Derrida’s thinking in contemporary literature, with particular emphasis on the philosopher’s preoccupation with the process of writing. This is the first book-length study of Mantel’s writing, not just in terms of Derrida’s thought, but through any critical perspective or lens to date.

Author : Eileen Joy Pollard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1159816301

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'What is Done and what is Declared' by Eileen Joy Pollard Pdf

Author : Lucy Arnold
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350072572

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Reading Hilary Mantel by Lucy Arnold Pdf

From the ghosts which reside in Midlands council houses in Every Day is Mother's Day to the resurrected historical dead of the Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, the writings of Hilary Mantel are often haunted by supernatural figures. One of the first book-length studies of the writer's work, Reading Hilary Mantel explores the importance of ghosts in the full range of her fiction and non-fiction writing and their political, social and ethical resonances. Combining material from original interviews with the author herself with psychoanalytic, historicist and deconstructivist critical perspectives, Reading Hilary Mantel is a landmark study of this important and popular contemporary novelist.

Author : Heather Hillsburg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000606546

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Urban Captivity Narratives by Heather Hillsburg Pdf

Evolving from a rigorous study of post-9/11 women's writing, Dr. Heather Hillsburg's new monograph identifies an emerging genre, which she names Urban Captivity Narratives. Using examples ranging from memoir to young adult fiction, each of the texts examined in the study follows a female protagonist who has survived abduction, been held captive for months or even years, and subjected to sexual, emotional, and physical abuse by their captor. Hillsburg contextualizes these narratives, and takes into consideration our current political atmosphere, the role of patriarchy, and various social anxieties that come into play when discussing the kind of oppression seen in these narratives.

Author : Celucien L. Joseph,Suchismita Banerjee,Marvin E. Hobson,Danny M. Hoey, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000012521

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat by Celucien L. Joseph,Suchismita Banerjee,Marvin E. Hobson,Danny M. Hoey, Jr. Pdf

Providing an intellectual interpretation to the work of Edwidge Danticat, this new edited collection provides a pedagogical approach to teach and interpret her body of work in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat starts out by exploring diasporic categories and postcolonial themes such as gender constructs, cultural nationalism, cultural and communal identity, and moves to investigate Danticat’s human rights activism, the immigrant experience, the relationship between the particular and the universal, and the violence of hegemony and imperialism in relationship with society, family, and community. The Editors of the collection have carefully compiled works that show how Danticat’s writings may help in building more compassionate and relational human communities that are grounded on the imperative of human dignity, respect, inclusion, and peace.

Author : Matthew T. Pifer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000754070

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Dissent and the Dynamics of Cultural Change by Matthew T. Pifer Pdf

Dissent and the Dynamics of Cultural Change: Lessons from the Underground Presses of the Late Sixties, examines alternative presses’ critique of culture at a time of infamous transformation and revolution in the United States. In this new study, author Matthew Pifer seeks to delineate the structure of dissent to better understand how cultural change is realized, and explores the relationships between the public and those cultural institutions that define the values and social norms that shaped daily life.

Author : Roberto del Valle Alcalá
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000750898

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Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction by Roberto del Valle Alcalá Pdf

Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism proposes a fresh approach to contemporary fictional engagements with the idea of crisis in capitalism and its various social and economic manifestations. The book investigates how late-twentieth and twenty-first-century Anglophone fiction has imagined, interpreted, and in most cases resisted, the collapse of the socio-economic structures built after the Second World War and their replacement with a presumably immaterial order of finance-led economic development. Through a series of detailed readings of the words of authors Martin Amis, Hari Kunzru, Don DeLillo, Zia Haider Rahman, John Lanchester, Paul Murray and Zadie Smith among others, this study sheds light on the embattled and decidedly unstable nature of contemporary capitalism.

Author : Michael Bryson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000606508

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The Humanist (Re)Turn: Reclaiming the Self in Literature by Michael Bryson Pdf

The exciting new book argues for a renewed emphasis on humanism--contrary to the trend of post-humanism, or what Neema Parvini calls "the anti-humanism" of the last several decades of literary and theoretical scholarship. In this trail-blazing study, Michael Bryson argues for this renewal of perspective by covering literature written in different languages, times, and places, calling for a return to a humanism, which focuses on literary characters and their psychological and existential struggles—not struggles of competition, but of connection, the struggles of fragmented, incomplete individuals for integration, wholeness, and unity.

Author : Peter Sloane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000008692

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David Foster Wallace and the Body by Peter Sloane Pdf

David Foster Wallace and the Body is the first full-length study to focus on Wallace’s career-long fascination with the human body and the textual representation of the body. The book provides engaging, accessible close readings that highlight the importance of the overlooked, and yet central theme of all of this major American author’s works: having a body. Wallace repeatedly made clear that good fiction is about what it means to be a ‘human being’. A large part of what that means is having a body, and being conscious of the conflicts that arise, morally and physically, as a result; a fact with which, as Wallace forcefully and convincingly argues, we all desire ‘to be reconciled’. Given the ubiquity of the themes of embodiment in Wallace’s work, this study is an important addition to an expanding field. The book also opens up the themes addressed to interrogate aspects of contemporary literature, culture, and society more generally, placing Wallace’s works in the history of literary and philosophical engagements with the brute fact of embodiment.

Author : Joseph Rex Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351384599

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George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form by Joseph Rex Young Pdf

Using the frameworks of literary theory relevant to modern fantasy, Dr. Joseph Young undertakes a compelling examination of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and his employment of the structural demands and thematic aptitudes of his chosen genre. Examining Martin’s approaches to his obligations and licenses as a fantasist, Young persuasively argues that the power of A Song of Ice and Fire derives not from Martin’s abandonment of genre convention, as is sometimes asserted, but from his ability to employ those conventions in ways that further, rather than constrain, his authorial program. Written in clear and accessible prose, George R. R. Martin and the Fantasy Form is a timely work which encourages a reassessment of Martin and his approach to his most famous novels. This is an important work for both students and critics of Martin’s work and argues for a reading of A Song of Ice and Fire as a wide-ranging example of what modern fantasy can accomplish when employed with an eye to its capabilities and purpose.

Author : Chikako Nihei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000021189

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Haruki Murakami by Chikako Nihei Pdf

Haruki Murakami: Storytelling and Productive Distance studies the evolution of the monogatari, or narrative and storytelling in the works of Haruki Murakami. Author Chikako Nihei argues that Murakami’s power of monogatari lies in his use of distancing effects; storytelling allows individuals to "cross" into a different context, through which they can effectively observe themselves and reality. His belief in the importance of monogatari is closely linked to his generation’s experience of the counter-­‐‐culture movement in the late1960s and his research on the 1995 Tokyo Sarin Gas Attack caused by the Aum shinrikyo cult, major events in postwar Japan that revealed many people’s desire for a stable narrative to interact with and form their identity from.

Author : Eileen Pollard,Ginette Carpenter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474296519

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Hilary Mantel by Eileen Pollard,Ginette Carpenter Pdf

The first British writer to win the Booker Prize on two separate occasions - for Wolf Hall in 2009 and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies in 2012 - Hilary Mantel is one of the most popular and lauded novelists working today. Hilary Mantel: Contemporary Critical Perspectives is a critical guide to Mantel's work, from her earliest novels through to her recent Thomas Cromwell fictions, including analysis of her short story collections and memoir. Chapters cover such topics as Mantel's engagement with history to her deployment of the spectral and her extensive intertextuality. The book also includes a comprehensive interview with Mantel herself that explores her work and career.

Author : Hilary Mantel
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443404549

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Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel Pdf

Alison Hart is a medium by trade. But her ability to communicate with spirits is a torment rather than a gift. Behind her plump, smiling and bland public persona is a desperate woman. Her days and nights are haunted by the men she knew in her childhood, the thugs and petty criminals who preyed upon her hopeless, addled mother, Emmie. And the more she tries to be rid of them, the stronger and nastier they become.

Author : Nicola Barker
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061853241

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Behindlings by Nicola Barker Pdf

Spurting with kinetic energy, nasty wit, and kindness to animals, Wesley ought to be a star. Or so it seems to the "Behindlings" -- followers who nip at his heels, turn up everywhere he goes, and lie in wait for him around every corner. They skulk through the dreary streets of their tiny English town, gathering their own scabby intentions, irritating habits, and weird manners, burying all differences in the common pursuit of their true prize, their Wesley. In Behindlings, the inimitable and ungovernable Nicola Barker takes her most compelling character to date, gives him his head and her novel, and sees him run off with her readers.

Author : William Fiennes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393076950

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The Music Room: A Memoir by William Fiennes Pdf

A bittersweet description of an ancient family house in an enchanted setting, and of growing up with a damaged brother. William Fiennes spent his childhood in a moated castle, the perfect environment for a child with a brimming imagination. It is a house alive with history, beauty, and mystery, but the young boy growing up in it is equally in awe of his brother Richard. Eleven years older and a magnetic presence, Richard suffers from severe epilepsy. His illness influences the rhythms of the family and the house’s internal life, and his story inspires a journey, interwoven with a loving recollection, toward an understanding of the mind. This is a song of home, of an adored brother and the miracle of consciousness. The chill of dark historical places coexists with the warmth and chatter of the family kitchen; the surrounding landscapes are distinguished by ancient trees, secret haunts, the moat’s depths and temptations. Bursting with tender detail, The Music Room is a sensuous tribute to place, memory, and the permanence of love.