Eastern African Literatures (Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures)
by Russell West-Pavlov
The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. This volume offers an overview of contemporary Eastern African writing in English since the mid-twentieth century. It takes a fresh look at what has been an under-represented regional literary tradition within what continues to be an under-represented continental li...
Depuis la disparition de l'ecrivain en 1991, l'oeuvre prolifique d'Andre Dhotel n'a cesse de grandir et de faire la preuve de son actualite paradoxale. Largement reeditee, elle a trouve de nouveaux lecteurs et attire l'attention d'une critique quelque peu revenue des eclats de l'avant-garde et plus curieuse, desormais, de la fonction d'emerveillement de toute grande litterature. Il y a bien du mystere en effet dans la simplicite sinueuse et deconcertante des romans d'Andre Dhotel, et sa " rhetor...
Gerade Goethes Faust eignet sich als Vorlage fur Hollywoodfilme. Allerdings handelt es sich dabei um Adaptionen und Transformationen der Thematik, nicht um direkte UEbernahmen. Grunde dafur liegen u. a. in den unterschiedlichen politischen, kulturellen und wirtschaftlichen Situationen, die das Deutschland der Goethezeit und das moderne Amerika kennzeichnen. Doch wie schon im Faust zahlen heute die positive Aufloesung des Konfliktes und eine Liebesbeziehung zu den Bestandteilen eines modernen Hol...
The concept of transmesis refers to the depiction of translation and translators within fictional texts. The term's metaphorical conjunction of mimesis with translation suggests both the mimetic treatment of items in the black box, i.e. of those aspects of translation that translations as 'finished' products conceal, and also the question of how to represent language and multilingual realities in literature. Thomas O. Beebee examines and compares examples of transmesis across a wide variety of l...
Writing, Medium, Machine (Technographies, #1)
Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies is a collection of thirteen essays by leading scholars which explores the mutual determination of forms of writing and forms of technology in modern literature. The essays unfold from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives the proposition that literature is not less but more mechanical than other forms of writing: a transfigurative ideal machine. The collection breaks new ground archaeologically, unearthing representations in literatu...
The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory (Bloomsbury Handbooks)
The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory was a PROSE Award finalist. The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of the art of contemporary feminist thought. With chapters written by world-leading scholars from a range of disciplines, the book explores the latest thinking on key topics in current feminist discourse, including: * Feminist subjectivity - from identity, difference, and intersectionality to affect...
'Common-sense,' the Romantic critics told us, was all that was needed to understand and interpret literary texts. Today, we know this is not generally true. Modern criticism has joined with pre-Romantic criticism to expose common-sense as appropriate (because simple-minded), inadequate to comprehend and interpret verbal structures which are frequently 'non-[commonsensical,' anti-commonsensical, or even nonsensical. The difference between readers today and their earlier counterparts is that we ha...
The Productive Body asks how the human body and its labor have been expropriated and re-engineered through successive stages of capitalism; and how capitalism's transformation of the body is related to the rise of scientific psychology and social science disciplines complicit with modern regimes of control. In Discipline and Punish, Foucault cited Guery and Deleule in order to link Marx's diagnosis of capitalism with his own critique of power/knowledge. The Productive Body brings together Marxis...
Les Mots Sans Sepulture (Documents Pour L'Histoire Des Francophonies, #29)
by Jean-Christophe Delmeule
Que serait le territoire de l'errance lorsqu'il perd ses frontieres au coeur du langage ? Une plongee extatique dans la violence et l'indicible ? Un geste poetique qui delivre les chairs et les etres pour mieux les oublier ? Une memoire sans cesse revendiquee qui inscrit son exigence dans les amnesies du passe ? Ou le chant desespere d'une ecriture qui fouille et ecartele les sources de la voix et les origines de la creation ? Architecture de la composition et de la decomposition, retive a tou...
In this unique work, Ken Gale and Jonathan Wyatt bring together three areas of scholarship: collaborative writing as method of inquiry, the philosophical approaches of the French philosopher, Gilles Deleuze, and the performativity of both writing and the "self". The book is a reflexive exploration into the theory and practice of collaborative writing, with their between-the-twos-sequences of exchanged writings using a variety of forms and genres-at the book's heart. Their collaboration offers an...
This multidisciplinary collection brings together scholars from the fields of literature, theology and linguistics who question and extend our taken-for-granted conceptions of The End. It focuses on the ways in which endings are formally signaled in literature, and sets these alongside parallel studies in journalism and film. However, it is also concerned with larger philosophical and historical notions of closure, impermanence, rupture and apocalypse as well as the possibilities of «posthumous»...
This book brings together several major essays on foundational topics of narrative studies and the theory of fictionality by one of the preeminent figures of postclassical narrative theory. It reexamines and reconceives the role of the author, the status of implied authors, the model for unnatural narrative theory, the nature of narrative, and the ideological implications of narrative forms. It also explores the status of historical characters in fictional texts, the paradoxes of realism, the pr...
Reading the Beatles
Unworkable (SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature)
by Fabio Vighi
Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol
by Associate Professor in the Department of English Adam Frank
Memory, Fluid Identity, and the Politics of Remembering (Ideas, History, and Modern China, #15)
by Li Li
The Chinese Cultural Revolution is the single most important internal social event in contemporary Chinese history. The plethora of history, literary, and artistic representations inspired by this event are critical to our understanding of the diversified, often contested, interpretations of contemporary China. Li Li's critical examination of autobiographic, filmic and fictional presentations in Memory, Fluid Identity, and the Politics of Remembering: The Representations of the Chinese Cultura...
What is the process by which literature might provide us with access to knowledge, and what sort of knowledge might this be? The question is not simply whether literature thinks, but whether literature thinks theoretically-whether it has a capacity, without the external aid of analytical methods that have determined Western philosophy and science since the Enlightenment, to theorize the conditions of the world from which it emerges and to which it addresses itself. Suspicion about literature's a...
Voice, Text, Hypertext
Voice, Text, Hypertext illustrates brilliantly why interest in textual studies has grown so dramatically in recent years. For the distinguished authors of these essays, a “text” is more than a document or material object. It is a cultural event, a matrix of decisions, an intricate cultural practice that may focus on religious traditions, modern “underground” literary movements, poetic invention, or the irreducible complexity of cultural politics. Drawing from classical Roman and Indian to moder...