Reading John Banville Through Jean Baudrillard

Author : Hedda Friberg-Harnesk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1621964310

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Reading John Banville Through Jean Baudrillard by Hedda Friberg-Harnesk Pdf

"This book aims to trace manifestations of Baudrillardean thinking in the contemporary fiction (seven novels and two plays) by John Banville, written in the period 1997 to 2015. Questions addressed concern the kinds of elements, attributable to what Jean Baudrillard terms the 'symbolic' order and the orders of simulacra--and notably, the latter are sometimes referred to as 'orders of simulation' and they are variously considered to be three, or four--might be discernible in these works and what insights, especially with regard to the self and relationships to 'the real', might be gleaned from these. Baudrillardean ideas such as the notion the hologram, the concept of 'life-in-death,' and--as in chapter 6--changing perceptions of demarcation lines between what is human and what is not, are also at focus, as are phenomena that, according to Baudrillard's thinking, move outside a realm of simulacra. The various chapters in this book--variations, as it were, on certain Baudrillardean themes--are linked through such issues"--

Author : Pietra Palazzolo,Michael Springer,Stephen Butler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350084537

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John Banville and His Precursors by Pietra Palazzolo,Michael Springer,Stephen Butler Pdf

Bringing together leading international scholars, John Banville and His Precursors explores Booker and Franz Kafka prize-winning Irish author John Banville's most significant intellectual influences. The book explores how Banville's novels engage deeply with a wide range of sources, from literary figures such as Samuel Beckett, Heinrich von Kleist, Wallace Stevens, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Henry James, to thinkers such as Freud, Heidegger, and Blanchot. Reading the full range of Banville's writings - from his Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea to his latest book, Mrs Osmond – John Banville and His Precursors reveals the richness of the author's work. In this way, the book also raises questions about the contemporary moment's relationship to a variety of intellectual and cultural traditions - Romanticism, Modernism, existentialism – and how the significance of these can be appreciated in new and often surprising ways.

Author : Hedda Friberg,Irene Gilsenan Nordin,Lene Yding Pedersen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443809306

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Recovering Memory by Hedda Friberg,Irene Gilsenan Nordin,Lene Yding Pedersen Pdf

Various ways of collecting, storing and recovering memories have been the focus of the most recent joint research project carried out by a group of Irish Studies scholars, all based in the Nordic countries and members of the Nordic Irish Studies Network (NISN). The result of the project, Recovering Memory: Irish Representations of Past and Present, is a collection of essays which examines the theme of memory in Irish literature and culture against the theoretical background of the philosophical discourse of modernity. Offering a wide range of perspectives, this volume examines a plurality of representations—past and present—of memory, both public and private, and the intersection between collective memory and individual in modern Ireland. Also explored is the relation between memory and identity—national and private—as well as questions of subjectivity and the construction of the self. Given Ireland’s tragic past and its long history of colonisation, it is inevitable that various aspects of memory in terms of nationality, post-colonialism, and politics also have bearing on this study. The volume is divided into five sections, each of which examines one broadly defined aspect of memory. The introductory section focuses on memory and history, and is followed by sections on memory and autobiography, place, identity, and memory in the work of novelist John Banville. Within each section, the individual writers engage in a fruitful dialogue with each other and with the approaches of such theorists as Arendt, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, and Baudrillard.

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : Verso
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1859846602

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Screened Out by Jean Baudrillard Pdf

'Watching the president's Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in the cathedral itself, with these pathetic screens and the young worshippers slumped around them here and there, you tell yourself that God and religion deserved better. Deserved to die, yes, but not this. However, watching the presidential figure and his sonorous inanity, you tell yourself that here at least you got what you deserved. Chirac is useless – that goes without saying – but so are we all ... Uselessness of this kind has no origin: it exists immediately, reciprocally; like a shared secret, you savour it implicitly – with its warm bitterness – particularly in these cold snaps, as the very essence of the social bond. Sanctioned by that other interactive uselessness – the uselessness of the screen.' World-renowned for his lively and often iconoclastic reading of contemporary culture and thought, Jean Baudrillard here turns his hand to topical political debates and issues. In this stimulating collection of journalistic essays Baudrillard addresses subjects ranging from those already established as his trademark (virtual reality, Disney, television) to more unusual topics such as the Western intervention in Bosnia, children's rights, Holocaust revisionism, AIDS, the Rushdie fatwa, Formula One racing, mad cow disease, genetic cloning, and the uselessness of Chirac. These are coruscating and intriguing articles, not least because they show that Baudrillard is – pace his critics – still susceptible and alert to influences from social movements and the world beyond the hyperreal.

Author : Michael Boss,Irene Gilsenan Nordin,Britta Olinder
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9788779349223

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Re-Mapping Exile by Michael Boss,Irene Gilsenan Nordin,Britta Olinder Pdf

The essays in this collection combine historical, cultural, and literary analyses in their treatment of aspects of exile in Irish writing. Some are 'structuralist' in seeing exile as a physical state of being, often associated with absence, into which an individual willingly or unwillingly enters. Others are 'poststructuralist', considering the narration of exile as a celebration of transgressiveness, hybridity, and otherness. This type of exile moves away from a political, cultural, economic idea of exile to an understanding of exile in a wider existential sense. The volume presents readings of Irish literature, history and culture that reflect some of the historical, sociological, psychological and philosophical dimensions of exile in the 1800s and 1900s. The theme of exile is discussed in a wide range of texts including literature, political writings and song-writing, either in works of Irish writers not normally associated with exile, or in which new aspects of 'exile' can be discerned. The essays cover, among others: Butler, D'Arcy McGee, Mulholland, Joyce, Hewitt, Van Morrison, Ni Chuilleanain, Doyle, and Banville.

Author : Pietra Palazzolo,Michael Springer,Stephen Joseph Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1350084557

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John Banville and His Precursors by Pietra Palazzolo,Michael Springer,Stephen Joseph Butler Pdf

"Bringing together leading international scholars, John Banville and His Precursors explores Booker and Franz Kafka prize-winning Irish author John Banville's most significant intellectual influences. The book explores how Banville's novels engage deeply with a wide range of sources, from literary figures such as Samuel Beckett, Heinrich Von Kleist, Wallace Stevens, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Henry James, to thinkers such as Freud, Heidegger, and Blanchot. Reading the full range of Banville's writings - from his Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea to his latest book, Mrs Osbourne - John Banville and His Precursors reveals the richness of the author's work. In this way, the book also raises questions about the contemporary moment's relationship to a variety of intellectual and cultural traditions -- Romanticism, Modernism, existentialism -- and how the significance of these can be appreciated in new and often surprising ways"--

Author : Stefan Herbrechter,Ivan Callus,Manuela Rossini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317198277

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European Posthumanism by Stefan Herbrechter,Ivan Callus,Manuela Rossini Pdf

In literary studies and beyond, ‘theory’ and its aftermaths have arguably been over-influenced by US- and UK-based institutions, publishers, journals, and academics. Yet the influence of theory in its Anglo-American forms has remained reliant on Continental European ideas. Similar patterns can be discerned within the latest theoretical paradigm – posthumanism. European ideas influence posthumanism’s challenge to established understandings of humanism, anthropomorphism, and anthropocentrism, which is characterised by the increased urgency and proliferation of questions such as ‘What does it mean to be human?’ and ‘What is the relationship between humans and their nonhuman others (machines, animals, plants, the inorganic, gods, systems, and various figures of liminality, from ghosts to angels, from cyborgs to zombies)?’ European Posthumanism examines the histories and geographies of posthumanism and looks at the genealogies which have been at work in the rise of posthumanist thought and culture. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.

Author : Hedda Friberg-Harnesk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1604979534

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Reading John Banville Through Jean Baudrillard by Hedda Friberg-Harnesk Pdf

This Gold E-Book Edition for institutional buyers provides web reader, PDF, and device access. An abridged version can be downloaded in PDF and device formats.

Author : Steve Redhead
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0231146132

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The Jean Baudrillard Reader by Steve Redhead Pdf

Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a controversial social and cultural theorist known for his trenchant analyses of media and technological communication. Belonging to the generation of French thinkers that included Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, Baudrillard has at times been vilified by his detractors, but the influence of his work on critical thought and pop culture is impossible to deny (many might recognize his name from The Matrix movies, which claimed to be based on the French theorist's ideas). Steve Redhead takes a fresh look at Baudrillard in relation to the intellectual and political climates in which he wrote. Baudrillard sought to produce a theory of modernity, but the modern world of the 1950s was radically different from the reality of the early twenty-first century. Beginning with Baudrillard's initial publications in the 1960s and concluding with his writings on 9/11 and Abu Ghraib, Redhead guides the reader through Baudrillard's difficult texts and unorthodox views on current issues. He also proposes an original theory of Baudrillard's relation to postmodernism, presenting the theorist's work as "non-postmodernist," after Bruno Latour's concept of "non-modernity." Each section of the Reader includes an extract from one of Baudrillard's writings, prefaced by a short bibliographical introduction that places the piece in context and puts the debate surrounding the theorist into sharp perspective. The conflict over Baudrillard's legacy stems largely from the fact that a comprehensive selection of his writings has yet to be translated and collected into one volume. The Jean Baudrillard Reader provides an expansive and much-needed portrait of the critic's resonant work.

Author : William Merrin
Publisher : Polity
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745630731

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Baudrillard and the Media by William Merrin Pdf

'Baudrillard and the Media' is the first in-depth critical study of Jean Baudrillard's media theory. Rejecting the common positioning of Baudrillard within the discipline as a postmodernist it argues instead for the necessity of a fuller reading of his ideas and critical project. Merrin offers an overview and evaluation of his key arguments and themes, focusing especially upon the organising principle of his work: his theory of symbolic exchange and critique of the semiotic and of simulation. Upon this basis the book also resituates Baudrillard within media theory, developing an original, critical re-reading of his relationship with McLuhanism and arguing for the significance instead of hitherto neglected influences such as Boorstin. Emphasizing his critical value and contemporary relevance, 'Baudrillard and the Media' also provides the most detailed exploration yet of Baudrillard's theory of the non-event, considering its applicability through case studies of his controversial analyses of the Gulf War, of 9/11 and the Afghan and Iraq Wars and of his own appearance in the film The Matrix. Considering also Baudrillard's discussion of cinema, his theory and personal practice of photography and his critique of new media, the book concludes with an evaluation of his place within media and communication studies and an argument for his importance for this field. Students and scholars of the media, and media theory in particular, will welcome this clear and comprehensive study.

Author : Steven Redhead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0748680640

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The Jean Baudrillard Reader by Steven Redhead Pdf

This text provides a chronological introduction to the work of Jean Baudrillard, with a selection of classic readings.

Author : Deane Blackler
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1571133518

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Reading W. G. Sebald by Deane Blackler Pdf

A daring new view of Sebald's works and the reading practice they call forth. W. G. Sebald was born in 1944 in Germany. He found his way as a young academic to England and a career as professor of German. Only between the late 1980s and his untimely death in 2001 did he concentrate on nonacademic writing, crafting a new kind of prose work that shares features with but remains distinct from the novel, essay, travel writing, and memoir forms and gaining elevation to the first rank of writers internationally. No less a critic than Susan Sontag was moved to ask "Is literary greatness still possible?," implying that it was and that she had found it embodied in his writing. Deane Blackler explores Sebald's biography before analyzing the reading practice his textscall forth: that of a "disobedient reader," a proactive reader challenged to question the text by Sebald's peculiar use of poetic language, the pseudoautobiographical voice of his narrators, the seemingly documentary photographs he inserted into his books, and by his exquisite representations of place. Blackler reads Sebald's fiction as adventurous and disobedient in its formulation, an imaginative revitalization of literary fiction for the third millennium. Deane Blackler received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 2005 from the University of Tasmania.

Author : Douglas M. Kellner
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1557864667

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Baudrillard by Douglas M. Kellner Pdf

Self-described "intellectual terrorist" Jean Baudrillard is one of the most important and provocative writers of the contemporary era. Widely acclaimed as the prophet to postmodernity, he has famously announced the disappearance of the subject, political economy, meaning, truth, the social, and the real in contemporary social formations.

Author : Ingo Berensmeyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029604316

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John Banville by Ingo Berensmeyer Pdf

Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040516499

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Simulations by Jean Baudrillard Pdf

Baudrillard's bewildering thesis, a bold extrapolation on Ferdinand de Saussure's general theory of general linguistics, is in fact a clinical vision of contemporary consumer societies where signs don't refer anymore to anything except themselves. They all are generated by the matrix. Simulations never existed as a book before it was "translated" into English. Actually it came from two different bookCovers written at different times by Jean Baudrillard. The first part of Simulations, and most provocative because it made a fiction of theory, was "The Procession of Simulacra." It had first been published in Simulacre et Simulations (1981). The second part, written much earlier and in a more academic mode, came from L'Echange Symbolique et la Mort (1977). It was a half-earnest, half-parodical attempt to "historicize" his own conceit by providing it with some kind of genealogy of the three orders of appearance: the Counterfeit attached to the classical period; Production for the industrial era; and Simulation, controlled by the code. It was Baudrillard's version of Foucault's Order of Things and his ironical commentary of the history of truth. The book opens on a quote from Ecclesiastes asserting flatly that "the simulacrum is true." It was certainly true in Baudrillard's book, but otherwise apocryphal.One of the most influential essays of the 20th century, Simulations was put together in 1983 in order to be published as the first little black book of Semiotext(e)'s new Foreign Agents Series. Baudrillard's bewildering thesis, a bold extrapolation on Ferdinand de Saussure's general theory of general linguistics, was in fact a clinical vision of contemporary consumer societies where signs don't refer anymore to anything except themselves. They all are generated by the matrix.In effect Baudrillard's essay (it quickly became a must to read both in the art world and in academe) was upholding the only reality there was in a world that keeps hiding the fact that it has none. Simulacrum is its own pure simulacrum and the simulacrum is true. In his celebrated analysis of Disneyland, Baudrillard demonstrates that its childish imaginary is neither true nor false, it is there to make us believe that the rest of America is real, when in fact America is a Disneyland. It is of the order of the hyper-real and of simulation. Few people at the time realized that Baudrillard's simulacrum itself wasn't a thing, but a "deterrence machine," just like Disneyland, meant to reveal the fact that the real is no longer real and illusion no longer possible. But the more impossible the illusion of reality becomes, the more impossible it is to separate true from false and the real from its artificial resurrection, the more panic-stricken the production of the real is.