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Twentieth-Century Fictionby Peter Verdonk; Jean Jacques Weber
Routledge 1995; US$ 52.95By applying recent trends in literary and linguistic theory to a range of 20th Century fiction, the contributors make new theoretical insights accessible to student readers. An essential introduction to the subject. more...
Poetics of Postmodernismby Linda Hutcheon
Routledge 1988; US$ 41.95Neither a defense nor a denunciation of the postmodern, it continues Hutcheon's previous projects in studying formal self-consciousness in art, but adds to this both a historical and ideological dimension. more...
Politics of Postmodernismby Linda Hutcheon
Routledge 2002; US$ 28.95Working through the issue of representation, in art forms from fiction to photography, Linda Hutcheon sets out postmodernism's highly political challenge to the dominant ideologies of the western world. more...
Tracing Women's Romanticismby Kari E. Lokke
Routledge 2004; US$ 181.00this volume argues that the künstlerromane of Mary Shelley, Bettine von Arnim, and George Sand offer feminist understandings of history and transcendence that constitute a critique of Romanticism from within. more...
Five Fictions in Search of Truthby Myra Jehlen
Princeton University Press 2008; US$ 29.95Fiction, far from being the opposite of truth, is wholly bent on finding it out, and writing novels is a way to know the real world as objectively as possible. In Five Fictions in Search of Truth , Myra Jehlen develops this idea through readings of works by Flaubert, James, and Nabokov. She invokes Proust's famous search for lost memory as the exemplary literary process, which strives, whatever its materials, for a true knowledge. In Salammbô , Flaubert digs up Carthage; in The Ambassadors , James plumbs the examined life and touches at its limits; while in Lolita , Nabokov traces a search for truth that becomes a trespass. In these readings, form and style emerge as fiction's means for taking hold of reality, which is to say that... more...
Realism/Anti-Realism in 20th-Century Literatureby Christine Baron; Manfred Engel
Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 63.45Modernist literature and art have been dominated by a disinterest in mere empirical and social reality and a discontent with habitualized perception and the world-view of convention, reason, and pragmatism. This anti-realistic attitude originated in the e more...
Romantic Prose Fictionby Gerald Gillespie; Manfred Engel; Bernard Dieterle
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2008; US$ 297.00In this volume a team of three dozen international experts presents a fresh picture of literary prose fiction in the Romantic age seen from cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives. The work treats the appearance of major themes in characteristically Romantic versions, the power of Romantic discourse to reshape imaginative writing, and a series of crucial reactions to the impact of Romanticism on cultural life down to the present, both in Europe and in the New World. Through its combination of chapters on thematic, generic, and discursive features, Romantic Prose Fiction achieves a unique theoretical stance, by considering the opinions of primary Romantics and their successors not as guiding ?truths? by which to define the permanent... more...
Narratives of the European Borderby Dr Richard Robinson
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2007; US$ 90.00Richard Robinson examines the representation of shifting European borders in twentieth-century narrative, drawing together an unusual grouping of texts from different national canons and comparing the various ways that fictional settings transmute European placelessness into narrative. more...
Text to Readerby Theo D?haen; Theo D'haen
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1983; US$ 149.00Text to Reader seeks to find a critical approach that links a novel?s form to its socio-cultural context. Combining elements from Iser?s reception aesthetics, speech act theory, and Goffman?s frame analysis, this book starts from the assumption that a reader has certain conventional expectations with regard to a novel, and then goes on to examine how violations of these expectations rule the reader?s relationship to the novel. The theory sketched in the first chapter is then, in four subsequent chapters, applied to The French Lieutenant?s Woman by the English author John Fowles, Letters by the American John Barth, Libro de Manuel by the Argentinean Julio Cortázar, and De Kapellekensbaan by the Flemish novelist Louis-Paul Boon. The... more...
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