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Book SynopsisDie Beitragsautoren dieses Sammelbandes gehen der Frage nach, welche Rolle das Erinnern in der deutschsprachigen Literatur nach 1945 und sodann nach dem Umbruch des Jahres 1989 spielt. Dabei werden unterschiedlich Formen der literarischen Konfiguration von Erinnerung untersucht und das Verhältnis von Fakt und Fiktion diskutiert. In den Blick geraten unterschiedliche Poetologien, Schreibweisen und Konzepte beim Umgang mit Geschichte.Table of ContentsGeschichte im Spiegel der deutschsprachigen Literatur nach 1945 und 1989. - Dimensionen des Erinnerns in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur.

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Book SynopsisIn diesem Open-Access-band geht es um die Thematisierung des Verhältnisses zwischen den gegenwärtig getrennten „Zwei Kulturen“ und Umrisse ihrer neuen Synthese in Richtung auf eine zeitgenössische, auf Interdisziplinarität gegründeten „Dritten Kultur“ als Zusammenschau von Literaturwissenschaft, Philosophie und Naturwissenschaft. Dabei wird Kafka als ein Autor ernst genommen, dessen Nähe zu Autoren der Romantik (Kleist etwa als einer seiner „Blutsbrüder“) ihn dazu bestimmte, deren zentrales Interesse an der Elektrizität (in Form des Mesmerismus beispielsweise) zu teilen. Als eine Weiterführung hinein in die neueste Moderne gelangt Kafkas besondere Begegnung mit Einstein und dessen Relativitätstheorie zur Darstellung, deren Einwirkung insbesondere auf Kafkas Spätwerk dargelegt wird. Als moderne Spielform solch „electrisch“- transdisziplinär orientierten literarischen Schreibens wird diesen Ausführungen Botho Strauß` gegenwärtiges Novellenwerk zur Seite gestellt.Table of ContentsEinleitung: Zur Methodik mit Blick auf die Variationen des Prometheus-Mythos.- Annäherungen an Prometheus.- Variationen des Lichts. Auf dem Weg zu einem „electrischen Prometheus“: Das göttliche Licht der Gerechtigkeit.- Kafkas Lichtroman „Der Verschollene“, oder: Eine amerikanische Richterwahl im falschen Licht, Amazonenkampf versus Jiu-Jitsu.- Heinrich von Kleist und Franz Kafka: „Blutsbrüder“ unter sich.- Kafkas „mesmeristischer“ Kleist, ein artverwandtes Geschöpf im Geiste noch früher Romantik. Von Ritter zu Brecht und Dürrenmatt, oder: Die Spaltkraft der Atombombe.- Noch einmal Theoretisches, nunmehr mit Blick auf Friedrich Nietzsche und Botho Strauβ. Ein notwendiger Exkurs mitten ins Herz einer vermeintlichen Finsternis.- Botho Strauβ` “elektrische“ Novellen.- Zur Position des „elektrischen“ Erzählers.- Frühromantisches im Mittelaltergewand.- Eingeschobene Gedanken zum „Bildungsroman“. Zur Genrefrage.- Kafka als Lektor eines Röntgenstrahlen-Romans. Die Beziehung zu Ernst Weiss.- Ein „asiatischer“ Mozart bei Weiss und bei Kafka.- Ernst Weiss: Die Kunst des Erzählens. Fragen der Assimilation am Beispiel des „deutschen“ Mozart.- Ein (gemeinsamer?) „chinesischer“ Mozart.- Taoismus, Hermeneutik und moderne Physik. Noch ein notwendiger Exkurs.- Kafkas Blumfeld-Erzählung im Rahmen von Kafkas „Neutönertum“. Eine Entdeckung.- Die Lichtgeschwindigkeit ist unerreichbar – bis heute. Zu Kafkas zentraler literaturtheoretischer Kategorie eines immerwährenden „Ansturms gegen die Grenze.- Die Lichtgeschwindigkeit ein „neuer Gott“? Von Einstein zu Kafka noch immer via Ludwig Hopf.- Konsequenzen, die der Autor Kafka zog, oder: Das physikalische, elektromagnetische Experiment als Inspirationsquelle – eine Beweisführung aus dem Geiste der „Dritten Kultur.- Eine epochale „Verwandlung“ und mitten darin: Hans Magnus Enzensbergers Geniestreich.- Coda und zugleich Schlussakkord.

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Book SynopsisThe seventh volume in this series treats the major works of six award-winning counterculture playwrights of the 1960s. Miyamoto Ken's ""Meiji Coffin"" is a biographical play about the Christian socialist Tanaka Shozo and his involvement in the Ashio copper mine pollution problem of the early Meiji period. Fukuda Yoshiyuki's ""Oppekepe"" is a fictionalized treatment of Kawakami Otojiro's shinpa theater company that performed soshi plays, a New Wave theater form that arose in the early modernization period of Japan. Comedy Duo in ""Hibernation"" by Akihama Satoshi is a delightful absurdist piece about two family members stuck together in the snow. Akimoto Matsuyo's ""Our Lady of the Scabs"" depicts how a cult captures the hearts of its naive followers while ignoring or exploiting the truly devout. Shimizu Kunio's ""Such a Serious Frivolity"" uses the image of a queue to illustrate the docility of citizens and the defiance of youth. At ""Play with a Lion"" by Yamazaki Mazakazu treats the complex relations between the seventeenth-century ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the consummate tea artist Sen no Rikyu.

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Book SynopsisJan Opolsky has primarily been viewed as an undistinguished hanger-on in the era of Czech literary decadence. Through close reading and detailed analysis of Opolsky's prose, however, Peter Butler argues that, far from his reputation as a literary lackey, Opolsky is a master of sustained narrative irony and an accomplished writer in his own right. Beyond Decadence evaluates archival sources and private correspondence between Opolsky and other literary figures, and includes a classified bibliography of Opolsky's work. Butler's introduction, meanwhile, offers an overview of the Czech decadent/symbolist literary and artistic movements, placing them within a larger European perspective. Redeeming a literary artist who has been nearly forgotten in the English-speaking world, Beyond Decadence will be of particular interest to students of Slavic and European literary history.

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Book SynopsisPeter Ackroyd's writing is obsessed with the defining heterogeneity of London its rich diversity of human experience, mood, and emotion, of actions and events, and of the tools through which all of this heterogeneity is represented and reenacted. But for Ackroyd, one of the foremost of the so-called "London writers," this energizing heterogeneity also has a sinister side, largely originating outside social norms and mainstream pathways of cultural production. Touching on everything from occult practices to the plotting of radical groups, crime and fraud, dubious scientific experiments, and popular, dramatic forms of ritual and entertainment, Ackroyd contends that these forces both contest prescribed cultural modes and supply the city with its characteristic dynamism and capacity for spiritual renewal. This idiosyncratic London construct is particularly prominent in Ackroyd's novels, in which his ideas about the city's nature and his connection to English literary sensibilities combine to create a distinct chronotope with its own spatial and temporal properties. A Horror and a Beauty explores this world through six defining aspects of the city as Ackroyd identifies them: the relationship between London's past and present, its uncanny manifestations, its felonious tendencies, its inhabitants' psychogeographic and antiquarian strategies, its theatricality, and its inherently literary character.

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Book SynopsisDescribed by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover of gossip, beer, cats, and women (in roughly that order), Bohumil Hrabal is one of the most important, most translated, and most idiosyncratic Czech authors. In Bohumil Hrabal: A Full-Length Portrait, Jiri Pelan makes the case that this praise is far too narrow. A respected scholar of French and Italian literature, Pelan approaches Hrabal as a comparatist, expertly situating him within the context of European and world literature as he explores the entirety of Hrabal's oeuvre and its development over sixty years. Concise, clear, and as compulsively readable as the works of Hrabal himself, Bohumil Hrabal was universally praised by critics in its original Czech edition as one of best works of Hrabal criticism. Here it is beautifully rendered into English for the first time by David Short, a celebrated tra

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Book SynopsisIn this comparative tour de force, Josef Hrdlička--one of the Czech Republic’s foremost experts on lyric poetry--examines the impact of exile, literal or spiritual, on poetry. Hrdlička argues that exile serves to disrupt the fundamental elements of poetry, especially its linguistic and cultural framework. Beginning with an examination of exile as a cultural phenomenon in the Western tradition, Hrdlička follows its complex history and treatment by poets from Solon to Celan. Focusing on the specific poetics of exile, he identifies Ovid’s elegies as an early model of exile in poetics before tracing the metamorphosis of exile as a concept through the modern age and the very Baudelarian idea that a person can be metaphorically exiled by the act of daily living itself. The core of Poetry in Exile, however, hews closer to Hrdlička’s homeland, homing in on the postwar poetry of Czech exiles. Poets such as Ivan Blatný, Milada Součková, Ivan Diviš, and Petr Král are investigated as examples to test the theoretical questions raised in the first part of the book and discover the answers that their individual poems provide.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Poetry and Exile 2. Shaded by Reminiscence 3. Exile and Shelter 4. Arcadia, Utopia, Exile 5. The Invisible Home 6. Ivan Blatný’s Orphic Theatre 7. The Case of Milada Soucková’s Poetry 8. Ivan Diviš and Leaving Bohemia 9. In the Space of a Day 10. Exile, Nomadic life and Language 11. Exile and the Imagination BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisA new look at the development of innovative postwar writing in France, Britain, and the United States. The Avant-Postman explores a broad range of innovative postwar writing from France, Britain, and the United States. Taking James Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as a joint starting point, David Vichnar draws genealogical lines from there through the work of more than fifty writers up to very recent years, including William Burroughs, B. S. Johnson, Ian Sinclair, Kathy Acker, Alan Moore, David Foster Wallace, and many others. Centering the exploration around five strategies employed by Joyce—narrative parallax, stylistic metempsychosis, concrete writing, forgery, and neologizing the logos—the book reveals the striking continuities and developments from Joyce’s day to our own.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION. JOYCE THE AVANT-1. Preliminary notes on the novel, experiment, and the avant-garde2. Joyce the avant-gardist: the Wake in transition3. transition in the Wake: Joyce the transitionist4. A Joycean avant-garde: parallax, metempsychosis, concretism, forgery, and neologism5. Joycean (?) traditions: Hayman, Adams, Werner, Levitt6. Post-JoyceCHAPTER 1. JOYCE DE NOUVEAU: “WITHIN OR BEHIND OR BEYOND OR ABOVE” THE NEW NOVEL, 1947–671.1 “Equivalent images, analogous sensations”: Nathalie Sarraute1.2 “The Additional Step in Subverting the System”: Alain Robbe-Grillet1.3 “Forever advancing on shifting sands”: Claude Simon1.4 “Anamnesis of leitmotifs”: Robert Pinget1.5 “To fail this way, in a superhuman attempt”: Claude Mauriac1.6 “Do whatever you can to get the most out of it”: Michel ButorCHAPTER 2. “BUT HOW MANY HAVE FOLLOWED HIM?” JOYCE IN BRITAIN, 1955–752.1 “A horroshow crack on the ooko or earhole”: Anthony Burgess2.2 “The Einstein of the novel”: B. S. Johnson2.3 “This distanced technique of writing from the unconscious”: Alan Burns2.4 “The voyce crying in the wilderness, rejoice with me”: Brigid Brophy2.5 “A death wish and a sense of sin”: Ann Quin2.6 “Who’s she when she’s (not) at home”: Christine Brooke-Rose, 1964–75CHAPTER 3. MAKING JOYCE “PART OF THE LANDSCAPE”:AMERICAN LITERARY EXPERIMENT, 1953–19733.1 “A new mythology for the space age”: William S. Burroughs3.2 “The self who could do more”: William Gaddis3.3 “That style which deliberately exhausts its possibilities”: John Barth3.4 “Never cut when you can paste”: William H. Gass3.5 “The book remains problematic, unexhausted”: Donald Barthelme3.6 “Orpheus Puts Down Harp”: Thomas PynchonCHAPTER 4. JOYCEAN OULIPO, OULIPIAN JOYCE4.1 The joys of constraint and potential4.2 “Nothing left to chance”: Raymond Queneau4.3 “A man of letters”: Georges Perec4.4 “A pre-modern, encyclopedic cast of mind”: Harry Mathews4.5 “The Babel effect”: Jacques Roubaud 4.6 The anticipatory plagiaristCHAPTER 5. “THE CENTENARIAN STILL SEEMS AVANT-GARDE”:EXPERIMENT IN BRITISH FICTION, 1976–20065.0 “Of the dissolution of character”: Christine Brooke-Rose, 1984–20065.1 “Life’s too shored to embark on it now”: Brian W. Aldiss5.2 “Packed with meaningless local references”: J.G. Ballard5.3 “A polyglot babble like a symphonic Euro-language”: Angela Carter 5.4 “Realism is anti-art”: Jeanette Winterson5.5 “Great art should not move”: Alasdair Gray5.6 “Grafting, editing: quotations, correspondences”: Iain SinclairCHAPTER 6. “THE FUNNYMENTAL NOVEL OF OUR ERROR”:JOYCEAN AVANT-GARDE IN U.S. FICTION, 1973–19976.0 “‘Realism,’ the optical illusion of reality in capitalist thought”: Language poetry6.1 “That level of activity that reveals life as fiction”: Raymond Federman 6.2 “A novel as a concrete structure rather than an allegory”: Ronald Sukenick6.3 “Another awareness, another alphabet”: Walter Abish 6.4 “The parodying punning pre-Joycean cakewalk”: Ishmael Reed6.5 “Does language control like money?”: Kathy Acker6.6 “The joyous heresy that will not go away”: Gilbert SorrentinoCHAPTER 7. JOYCE AS SUCH / TEL QUEL JOYCE7.1 Tel Quel’s “Enigmatic Reserve”7.2 “A certain type of Excess“: Jean-Louis Houdebine7.3 “Dis: Yes – I.R.A.”: Maurice Roche7.4 “As close as possible to that unheard-of place”: Hélène Cixous7.5 “A subject illimitable, numberless”: Philippe Sollers7.6 “An avatar of catholicity”: Beyond Tel QuelCHAPTER 8. POST-2000 CODA: CONCEPTUAL JOYCE8.1 “Misinterpreting the avant-garde”: Raczymow, Hadengue, Levé8.2 Breaking “the recursive loops of realism”: Mitchell, Hall, Home, Moore8.3 “Crucial to the health of the ecosystem”: Amerika, Foster Wallace, Goldsmith, Danielewski, CohenCONCLUSION. JOYCE THE POST-1. Countersigning Joyce’s signature2. A Joycean postmodernism: “Rituals originating in piety”3. Joycean anti-postmodernists4. Revis(it)ing the Joycean tradition: “His producers are they not his consumers?”5. Genealogies of parallax, metempsychosis, trace, forgery, and neologism6. Joyce’s baroque error: “One more unlookedfor conclusion leaped at”

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Book SynopsisJoseph Conrad’s Authorial Self is organized around the category of the author with some illuminating aspects of Conrad’s Polishness as the major area of consideration. It starts with a theoretical treatment of Conrad’s authorship, continues through a focus on autobiography along with his creative process, proceeds with analyses of his ideas derived from his Polish heritage as presented in his personality and oeuvre, and moves on to biographies of the writer’s relatives. This set is followed by papers on “Amy Foster,” a short story of strong Polish resonance and a classic of émigré literature, considerations of translations of his works into Polish, and essays on central/south-central Europe and the sea.The main integrative concept of authorial self is supported by two secondary principles: delimitation by the geographical area covered: mainly Poland, but also Russia and central and south-central Europe, and the chronology of Joseph Conrad’s life and works, from influences upon Konradek in Lwów and the significance of East Carpathian poetics to juxtapositions of his oeuvre with early twentieth century authors as well as a contemporary Polish author and translations of his works. The final five papers span the whole period studied in this volume, from the first Polish translation published in 1897 to one of the most recent in 2011, from possible influences upon Conrad in his childhood and youth to the most recent reception of his works in the Balkans.This book is volume 27 of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, edited by Wiesław Krajka.Table of ContentsWiesław Krajka: IntroductionNathalie Martinière: Like a Damaged Kaleidoscope: Multiple Contemporary Images of Joseph ConradRichard Ambrosini: A Memoir “in the shape of a novel”: Making the “still voice” of Conrad’s Polish Past Resonate in A Personal RecordG. W. Stephen Brodsky: Anchors and Mirrors: Joseph Conrad’s Polonism EncodedHarold Ray Stevens: “A tall cross much out of the perpendicular”: Some Christian Contexts in Conrad’s Life, Letters, and “Heart of Darkness”Lilia Omelan: “A Man of Great Heart and Devotion”: Antoni Syroczynski and His Role in Young Konrad’s EducationLilia Omelan: Leon Syroczynski: a Patriot, an Insurgent, a Scholar, and His Connections to ConradAnna Brzozowska-Krajka: Conrad’s Borderland (Kresy) Regionalism from the Perspective of Geopoetics. The Case of “Amy FosterWiesław Krajka: Between Mental Spaces of the Self and the Other in “Amy Foster”: Dialogue of Cultures and Values? Alterity? Hospitality?Carl Schaffer: “They ain’t where they belong to be at”: Conrad’s and O’Connor’s Displaced PolesMonika Majewska: “a somewhat discredited sentiment”? Conrad, Tolstoy and Zdziechowski on PatriotismRafał Szczerbakiewicz: “Close-hauled points of sail and fore topmast upper staysails in space.” Stanisław Lem and Joseph ConradEwa Kujawska-Lis: Conrad’s Introduction to the Polish Literary Scene: Wygnaniec (1897) (An Outcast of the Islands) by Maria GasiorowskaAgnieszka Adamowicz-Pospiech: A Set of Three: Polish Versions of Joseph Conrad’s “Il Conde”Olga Binczyk and Grzegorz Gwózdz: Imagining the Never-Experienced: Aniela Zagórska’s and Magda Heydel’s Translations of “Heart of Darkness”Majda Šavle: Two Poles on the High Seas or How (not) to Circumvent a “Typhoon”Margreta Grigorova and Petya Tsoneva: Perspectives on the Contemporary Bulgarian Cultural Space: Conrad, Bulgarians and the SeaIndex of Non-Fictional NamesIndex of Conrad’s Works and Letters

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Book SynopsisJoseph Conrad’s ethical perspective is one of the deepest in twentieth-century fiction, yet its study has been overlooked in recent scholarship. Joseph Conrad and Ethics is one of very few books fully devoted to ethics in Conrad’s fiction. It offers a thorough, in-depth analysis of Conrad’s ethical reflection that challenges and extends current scholarly discussions.The authors of this theoretically informed, accessible volume examine Conrad’s representation of ethics through the lens of Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, and Ricoeur, among others, and confront Conrad’s ethical perspective to these philosophers’ views. Through detailed studies of works like “Heart of Darkness,” The Secret Agent, Lord Jim and Under Western Eyes, they navigate the conflicted terrain of ethics and morality, highlighting the enmeshment of ethics and aesthetics, ethics and narrative, and ethics and ideology in Conrad’s fiction. The key issues they address include the ethics of storytelling and readership, ethical commitment and detachment, the ethics of uncertainty and uneasiness, and planetary ethics and ethical disillusionment. Conrad is ambivalent about ethics and this interdisciplinary volume pivots around a fundamental Conradian ethical paradox: how to account for ethical responsibility in a world not meant for ethics in the first place and, as Conrad stated, whose “aim cannot be ethical at all.” It demonstrates that Conrad adopts a planetary ethics that embraces the human condition in its universality, while he also doubts the viability of ethics itself. Via his protagonists’ moral predicaments he expresses both the necessity of ethics in human relationships and the impossibility of individual ethical fulfillment.The book is volume 30 of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, edited by Wiesław Krajka. It explores a major, understudied Conradian topic – Ethics, and adds an important thematic and theoretical dimension to this series. The chapters are written by experts from various universities worldwide, in keeping with the international, cosmopolitan spirit of Eastern and Western Perspectives. The authors’ wide-ranging, original perspectives on ethics open new venues in Conrad scholarship that will greatly benefit scholars and students of Conrad, modernism, and ethics.Table of ContentsAmar Acheraïou: IntroductionAmar Acheraïou: Narrative and Ethics: Being, Meaning, and ReadingAileen Miyki Farrar: Narrative Autophagy and the Ethics of Storytelling in “Heart of Darkness”J. A. Bernstein: Under Straining Eyes: Joseph Conrad and the Problem of “Moral Luck” Thomas Higgins: “He died for the Revolution”: Anarchism and Ethical Commitment in The Secret AgentCatherine Delesalle-Nancey: Ethics as The Secret Agent in Joseph Conrad’s NovelLaëtitia Crémona: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics in Hitchcock’s SabotageNathalie Martinière: An Ethics of Uneasiness: Reading Joseph Conrad’s African stories with Francis BaconSubhadeep Ray: “After such knowledge what forgiveness?”: Nature, Community and Individual Ethics in Joseph Conrad’s “Because of the Dollars” and Adwaita Mallabarman’s A River Called TitasHarold Ray Stevens: The Cross of Christ as Afterthought: Killing the Christian Ethic at “An Outpost of Progress”

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Book SynopsisThe book discusses selected works of literature written in Great Britain in the final decades of the twentieth century in the context of contemporary debates on English national and cultural identity. Its main goal is to investigate how writers discussed in the book, Peter Ackroyd, Julian Barnes, and Adam Thorpe, address the issue of Englishness and to examine how they revisit its traditional formulations. Literary works by Ackroyd, Barnes, and Thorpe are discussed in the context of philosophy of history, spatial definitions of Englishness founded upon the myth of Green England, the tradition of the pastoral novel, and the discourse of the picturesque. Literary approaches to these issues are confronted with prevailing discourses of Englishness that in the late twentieth century were being both reinforced and questioned from different positions, as well as addressed by the authors in questions in their novels and polemical texts.

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a galaxy of traditional and modern critical approaches to Joseph Conrad's oeuvre, ranging from biographical and autobiographical studies to literary comparisons with John Milton, Herman Melville, James Joyce, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Cormac McCarthy; from postcolonial and Marxist analyses to reader-response, intertextual, and archetypal criticism. Some pieces incorporate the theoretical-philosophical insights of Josiah Royce, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Lacan; others consult Jacques Derrida, Homi Bhabha, and Slavoj Zizek. Apart from Conrad's life and its reflection in his writings, these essays illuminate such thematics as the critique of reality; nationalism; imperial evil; racism; landscape and truth; impressionism; psychological archetypes; doubling and defamiliarization; alienation and selfhood; the uncanny; imaginary identification and the real; ideology as specter; unconditional hospitality; the theory of whirling and veering; and academic teachings of Conrad, both their past character and future possibilities.

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Book SynopsisConrad in Italy provides international students and researchers with a variety of critical approaches. Richard Ambrosini surveys Conrad's reception within the Italian academy. Franco Marenco's essay on "Heart of Darkness" outlines Conrad's centrality in English Modernism. Alessandro Serpieri deals with Conrad's impressionistic treatment of space in The Secret Agent and other texts. Giuseppe Sertoli focuses on Conrad's debt to the Comtesse de Boigne's Memoires and to James's Portrait of a Lady in the writing of Suspense. Fausto Ciompi investigates the isotopy of dream in Lord Jim and other early novels. Elio Di Piazza reads the The Mirror of the Sea as an inquiry into British and Russian empires. Maria Teresa Chialant's study of "Amy Foster" and "Tomorrow" accounts for the interest of Italian critics in Conrad's minor works. Francesco Marroni unfolds the moral structure of "The Secret Sharer". Nicoletta Vallorani tackles the theme of the double in "The Secret Sharer" from the perspective of the art of photography. Luisa Villa illuminates the complex structure of Chance in the light of Conrad's re-elaboration of the Victorian multi-plot novel. Mario Domenichelli proposes a reading of Conrad's cooperation with Ford. The Inheritors is the subject of Mario Curreli's essay on Conrad's debt to H.G. Wells, Zangwill, and Drumont, while it places the issue of fourth-dimension in the context of European colonialisms. Marialuisa Bignami's survey of Conrad's influence on Primo Levi and Marilena Saracino's intertextual analysis of "Heart of Darkness" and Luigi Guarneri's Tenebre sul Congo are two exercises in dialogic reading which confirm Conrad's well-established reception in Italian culture.Table of ContentsMario Curreli: Introduction Mario Curreli: An Outline of Conrad's Reception in ItalyRichard Ambrosini: "The Battle for Conrad": Inside and Outside Italian Academia in the Years 1924-1960Alessandro Serpieri: Joseph Conrad: Many Landscapes, a Single Space Franco Marenco: "And I saw my mystake": Joseph Conrad and the Narrative of a Critical CenturyFausto Ciompi: Conrad and Dream: Almayer's FollyI, The Nigger of the "Narcissus," Lord JimMaria Teresa Chialant: The Figure of the Outsider in "Amy Foster" and "To-morrow"Mario Domenichelli, Conrad and Hueffer: From Three Collaborative Novels to High ModernismMario Curreli: Conrad's and Ford Four Dimensional Story: "The Inheritors"Elio Di Piazza: The Wind of Empire in Conrad's "rulers iof East and West"Francesco Marroni: Evil and Non-Evil in "The Secret Sharer"Nicoletta Vallorani: The Brotherhood of Twins: Conrad's "The Secret Sharer and Photography"Luisa Villa: Young Powell's Story and Its Conradian Inter-text: Re-reading Chance "for the Plot"Giuseppe Sertoli: Conrad's Portrait of a LadyMarialuisa Bignami: The Presence of Joseph Conrad in Primo Levi's OeuvreMarilena Saracino: "Heart of Darkness" and Tenebre sul Congo: History, Memory and Writing

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Book SynopsisBorn into a Polish szlachta (noble) family, the extraordinary modern novelist Joseph Conrad maintained, even in exile, strong ties to his Polish heritage and culture. Yet the author earned renown by writing in English, often about nautical adventures in remote parts of the world. In Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul, G. W. Stephen Brodsky seeks to reclaim the essentially Polish sensibility of Conrad's groundbreaking oeuvre. He finds in Conrad's work a distinct Polonism that plays intriguingly with selfhood, freedom, and irony. For Brodsky, Conrad's outlook and writing betray numerous contradictions. Despite the novelist's practical realism, Conrad was drawn to romance, orientalism, and the exotic. Frequently sick, he nevertheless pursued a life at sea. He despised adventurers, yet loved risk. An instinctive skepticism, conservatism, and nationalism complicated his liberalism and respect for humanity, and though he resigned himself to Poland's tragic destiny, Conrad refused to despair over the terribleness of his times. In this incomparable study, Brodsky shows how these inherent aspects of Conrad's personality inform and guide his Polonism, along with the best attributes of his fiction.Table of ContentsDedication Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction by George Zbigniew Gasyna Chapter One A Familiar Preface to Joseph Conrad's Polish Soul Chapter Two Under Western Eyes Conrad's Two Pasts-Thirty Years of Critical Misrule and a Renaissance Chapter Three Dispossession Encoded: Conrad as Exile Chapter Four Conrad's Brody Secret Sharers Jozef Korzeniowski, Joseph Roth, and other Children of the Borderland Chapter Five A Janus Gate Conrad's Krakow in Marseille Chapter Six Dogs and Duels: Englishman Conrad's Franco-Polish Honor, Fraudulent and Genuine Chapter Seven Darkness Visible in Conrad's Polish Orient: Anglo-Polish Orientalism and the Exotic in the Malay Tales Chapter Eight An Ironist's Harlequinade: Conrad's Unified Polish Comic Spirit Chapter Nine Saint Roman: Patriotism, Sanctity, and Mytho-History in "Prince Roman" Epilogue End Notes Bibliography

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Table of ContentsFrontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I. Collaboration, Affinity, and Original Creativity -- II. The Augsburg Years -- III. Learning from Kipling: The Lyrics -- IV. Exploiting Kipling's Prose -- V. Brecht's "Many Inventions" using Leopold Lindau's Translations -- VI. The Berlin Years -- VII. The World of "Man is Man" -- VIII. "Rudyard Brecht": The Late Twenties -- IX. Kipling in a Marxist World -- X. The Final Years -- XI. "Never the Twain shall meet"? - Conclusions -- Appendices -- Works consulted -- Index

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Book SynopsisIbsen has often been considered as the most important source, besides Goethe, of Western influence in modern Chinese literary thinking and remains influential in both the modern Chinese theatre and the Chinese women's movement. This bibliography charts how modern Chinese culture has developed.

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Book SynopsisThis book is written by Professor JIN Di, whose translation of ""Ulysses into Chinese"" is now commonly recognized as a substantial, even monumental, work. The text contains three parts. Part I provides an informative context for the Chinese Ulysses and the fascinating story of the origins of Jin's project. In Part II, there is wisdom to offer on the principles of translation, reflecting from the detailed account of the problems on bridging linguistic and cultural barriers during the translation process. The last part recounts the encounter between James Joyce and Chinese culture. This book speaks to readers across a broad variety of disciplines, from Joyceans, literature enthusiasts and translators, to sociologists, communication researchers and general readers.

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Book SynopsisEnglish novelist E.M. Forster wrote his last and best-loved work, A Passage to India, both as a paean to his love for India and as a tribute to the relationships he formed with Indians.Forster became entranced by the India of the Raj at a young ape, and his love affair with the sub-continent, its princes, and peoples, was to last all his life. At his most socially transgressive, it was with Indians that Forster chose to connect and with whom he put into effect his belief in man's duty to value friendship over state or ideology. His time in India was undoubtedly when he was at his most human and most vulnerable.At once a contemporary reflection on India's rich history and a biographical retelling of Forster's travels through the country in the early 1900s, Developing the Heart delves into the past to better understand the profound impact certain events and people had on his writing. In doing so, it allows readers to look on as Forster matures and softens over time in his behaviour with others as well as with himself. Often using Forster's own words to evoke a vivid landscape, this is the story of the most dramatic and exotic part of the life of one of England's greatest novelists.Table of Contents Part One Masood India Passage Out Bapu Sahib Passage Home Rooms with No View Troubles Private Secretary Kanaya Chhatarpur Going Home England Again A Passage to India Part Two Indian Echoes Broken Promises Two Ends to an Era Broadcasting to India The Longest Journey The Hill of Devi Final Passage

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Book SynopsisA biography of the celebrated Chinese writer of the 20th century, Lu Xun. It seeks to set aside all the propaganda that has accrued over the decades since his death, and present him as a credible human being, neither aggrandized nor belittled. Brief sketches of Lu Xun's work are appended.

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Book SynopsisIn this title, fifty essays by thirty Chinese writers bring to vivid life a period in which modernization and republicanism coexisted within classical Chinese culture. Unlike the more thematically social and political fiction of the May Fourth movement, these xiaopin wen, or modern essays, address their readers with a unique intimacy, adopting a highly 'personal' voice that is quietly meditative, lyrical, discreet, and at times full of wit and melancholy. Tam King-fai provides an introduction that supplies critical literary and historical background on the relationship between xiaopin wen and the May Fourth movement, in addition to explanatory notes and commentary concerning the importance of the form's lyric aestheticism.

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Book SynopsisUna Marson's work embodied anti-colonialism, anti-racism, feminism, class politics and pan-Africanism in the first half of the twentieth century. Her poetry and dramatic work symbolically ushered in a new era in Jamaica's literary landscape and her efforts in championing early Jamaican literature, as well as her avid support for Caribbean writers in Britain and the region, made her a key proponent of the development of a nationaland West Indian literary canon. She challenged racial inequality, affirmed standards of black beauty and black identity, and explored the complexities of gender, religious discrimination and class/economic exploitation. She did not frame her work around a single cause but, instead, she was mindful of the multiple intersections of oppression. Britain's hold on Jamaica's cultural imagination would finally be challenged by artists like Marson who were eager to free their nation of colonial authority and cultural dominance. In the end, through her advocacy and pioneering work, Marson achieved a voice for the oppressed.

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Book SynopsisSingapore in the writings of Joseph Conrad: a node in the networks of colonial modernity. In the 1880s, Joseph Conrad spent three extended stints in the colonial port city of Singapore, while working on ships around the region. Over the next thirty years, he would return to this place many times in his writing. Singapore is the principal, if sometimes obscured, port of call in Conrad’s fiction; it is the center of overlapping networks, colonial and commercial, religious and literary. His characters travel to upriver Borneo and to Bangkok, to Shanghai and to Sydney, and yet they tend to return to Singapore. This volume pairs for the first time two Conrad novellas that start in Singapore: The End of the Tether and The Shadow-Line.Together they provide a fleeting portrait of the developing city, through narrators who are uneasy with the trappings and workings of the colonial enterprise. These stories have renewed relevance as part of global modernist and oceanic literatures, and reading them now helps recall one chapter in Singapore’s long history as a vital site of cultural exchange, one that harbors and inspires distinctive storytelling traditions.Table of Contents Figures Introduction: Joseph Conrad's Double Visions of Singapore The End of the Tether (1902) The Shadow Line (a Confession) (1917)

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Book SynopsisFruto capital del universo lorquiano, esta obra sin parangón recoge la historia de Bernarda Alba, enviudada por segunda vez a los sesenta años, y de sus hijas, obligadas a sumirse en un luto que desencadenará la tragedia. Considerada la obra más madura de Lorca, La casa de Bernarda Alba cierra la llamada trilogía de la tragedia -formada también por Bodas de sangre y Yerma-. Su carácter realista y la opresión en el pecho que se siente ante la represión de unas mujeres atrapadas en un frío infierno de luto, celos, silencio y sueños truncados se ha interpretado como un presagio de los oscuros tiempos que se avecinaban y en los que el propio Lorca se convertiría en una víctima prematura. No obstante, la presente edición contrapone este texto tan magnífico como terrible a Los sueños de mi prima Aurelia, una comedia inacabada inspi

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Trade Review...remarkable thesis... * Tom Wright, Times Literary Supplement *Michael Ward has written a book whose 'donegality' is the medieval scholarship, the poetic craftsmanship, the philosophical acumen and the imaginative genius of the self-conciously Jovial Lewis himself. * Tom Wright, Times Literary Supplement *'Planet Narnia' is a valuable and excellently argued contribution to our understanding and enjoyment of the Nariad.Revelatory book. * Peter Costello, The Irish Catholic *Brilliant study. * Murrough O'Brian, Independent On Sunday. *

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Book SynopsisBefore his death from leukemia at the age of 36, Allon White had become known as one of the most important literary and cultural critics of his generation. Carnival, Hysteria, and Writing represents a summation of the work which, as Stuart Hall explains in an extended introduction, transformed cultural studies in the 1980s. Allon White''s central concerns - with writing, carnival, the body, hysteria, and memory - recur with differing inflections in the pieces collected here. Wide-ranging in scope, the essays move with fluency from an analysis of the work of Julia Kristeva to a discussion of language and location in Dicken''s Bleak House, and from a Thomas Pynchon short story to the ''seriousness'' of academic language. Other pieces deal with Gilles Deleuze and Francis Bacon, and with Mikhail Bakhtin, a major influence on Allon White''s thinking. Included too is the poignant autobiographical fragment, ''Too Close to the Bone''. An Afterword by Jacqueline Rose deals with the links between theory and autobiography and between the academic and personal writings in the book. A memorial to Allon White''s life and work, Carnival, Hysteria, and Writing will be essential reading for all working within literary and cultural studies.Trade Review`Here is everything that was already so fully achieved in Allon White's writing; the thrilled, dissective passion of the analysis, the metaphorical ebullience, the cool hold of the argument. At a time when intellectual work is being systematically milled down into institutionalized drudgery, his example reminds us of the vitality and ardour owed to thought.' Times Literary Supplement`this slim collected essays volume gives a special glimpse of Britain's great hope in the cult studs league' The Modern Review`gives a special glimpse of Britain's great hope in the cult studs league' Modern Review

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Book SynopsisThis book makes a radical break with earlier interpretations of Bakhtin''s work. Using recent Russian scholarship, Ken Hirschkop explodes many of the myths which have surrounded Bakhtin and his work and lays the ground for a new, more historically acute sense of his achievement. Through a comprehensive reading of Bakhtin''s work, Hirschkop demonstrates that his discussion of the philosophy of language, literary history, popular-festive culture, and the phenomenology of everyday life revolved around a lifelong search for a new kind of modern ethical culture. A detailed examination of the major works reveals the careful interweaving of philosophical and historical argument which makes Bakhtin at once so compelling and so frustrating a writer. Hirschkop treats Bakhtin not as a metaphysician or a philosopher for the ages, but as a writer inevitably drawn into the historical conflicts produced by a modernizing and democratizing Europe. As a consequence, Bakhtin becomes a more sober but alsoTrade ReviewHirschkop's study excels on numerous levels: meticulous and elegant in execution and style, exhaustively researched, acribically documented, and rigorously argued, it betrays its author's masterful grip of his subject - both biographical-historical and conceptual-philosophical ... has certainly set new critical standards for Bakhtin scholarship to come. * Poetics Today *This is an important and long-awaited book by one of the country's leading experts on Bakhtin and Bakhtinian theory. * Forum for Modern Language Studies *The book is rounded off with an extremely useful and up-to-date bibliography which includes a detailed bibliography of Bakhtin's writings organised according to genre and chronology and also those of his "circle". * Forum for Modern Language Studies *Very illuminating on Bakhtin's relationship with Saussure and linguistics. * The Yearbook of English Studies *Undoubtedly the most reliable and up-to-date biographical excursus on Bakhtin and the Bakhtin circle available in English. * Galin Tihanov, Times Higher Education Supplement *Intellectually vigorous ... subtle and wide-ranging interpretation ... asks several compelling qustions. * Galin Tihanov, Times Higher Education Supplement *

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Book SynopsisStates of Fantasy is Jacqueline Rose''s much-praised contribution to the current controversy over the limits of English Studies. Arguing for an expansion of the new boundaries of `English'', and for the importance of psychoanalysis to the understanding of our literary and historical lives, Rose looks at Israel/Palestine and South Africa, and their place in the English literary and cultural imagination.Jacqueline Rose''s fundamental question is the place of fantasy in public and private identities, and in these pages she pushes her investigation further into what might at first glance seem unlikely places. In September 1993, Israel and the PLO signed their first peace treaty; in April 1994, South Africa held its first non-racial democratic elections. States of Fantasy persuasively puts the case that nowhere demonstrates more clearly than these two arenas of historic conflict the need for a psychoanalytically informed understanding of historical process. In so doing, this book shows how Trade ReviewJacqueline Rose, with verve, imagination and ingenuity, argues that fantasy is central to modern politics: it is the psychic glue that holds together our social reality. Rose writes with engaging directness. * New Statesman and Society *The governing metaphor in Rose's study, deployed with splendid resourcefulness, is of unconscious histories, buried affiliations, broken and rejoined lines of influence...this is a work intimate with the detail of Israeli politics as it is with Jacques Lacan. Rose is an intellectual of the diaspora who, after a long detour through theory, has turned back to base in order to know the place for the first time, in all of its embracing, excluding the difference. * London Review of Books *It is the great virtue of Jacqueline Rose's new book ... that in it the reader is bracingly confronted with a genuinely innovative and adventurous style of investigating literary texts. Although she writes with in a recognizable psychoanalytic tradition solidly based in Freud, there is no jargon to get past. Rose's argument is both daring and convincing. Above all, I think it is her critical intelligence that impresses one the most. This isn't a mawkish kind of "personal criticism" - autobiographical meanderings through one's soul - but a capably expressed energy that takes her reader through the moral, cultural and psychological experiences that matter most to her. That we, too, feel them as important and consequential is a mark of her achievement. * Times Literary Supplement *a good and important read, politically engaged, personal and intellectual all in one. * Radical Philosophy 84, July/August 1997 *States of Fantasy is a brilliant, stimulating book, which exhibits a refreshing disregard for literary canon ... more provocative is its terminological novelty: the book's title heralds a departure from the more conventional 'culture and identity' approach. * Alasdair Pettinger, New Formations, 30 Winter 96/97 *Table of ContentsPART I. THE CLARENDON LECTURES ; PART II. THE LIMITS OF CULTURE

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Book SynopsisPresenting a survey of literature in England during the first half of the twentieth century, this work places modernist with non-modernist writings. It covers psychological novels, war poems, detective stories, satires, children's books, and other literary forms evolving in response to the new anxieties and exhilarations of twentieth-century life.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition Baldick argues persuasively that modernism, as exemplified by such authors as Eliot, Woolf, and Joyce, did not suddenly dominate British literature in the period 1910-40; realistic novels and traditional poetic and dramatic forms continued to flourish. The individual author bibliographies are a tremendous asset. Recommended for all academic libraries, especially at the undergraduate level. * Library Journal *Table of ContentsPART I: ELEMENTS; PART II: FORMS; PART III: OCCASIONS

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Book SynopsisAntigone on the Contemporary World Stage is the first book to analyse what happens to Sophocles'' play as it is adapted and (re)produced around the world, and the first to focus specifically on Antigone in performance. The essays, by an international gathering of noted scholars from a wide range of disciplines, highlight the numerous ways in which social, political, historical, and cultural contexts transform the material, how artists and audiences in diverse societies including Argentina, The Congo, Finland, Haiti, India, Japan, and the United States interact with it, and the variety of issues it has been used to address.Table of ContentsI. ANTIGONE IN ANTIQUITY ; II. AN ANCIENT GREEK PLAY? ; III. CULTURAL FREEDOM ; IV. ANTIGONE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ; V. INDIVIDUAL VS. COLLECTIVE ; VI. ANTIGONE AS DISSIDENT ; VII. CULTURAL MEMORY ; VIII. SOPHOCLES VS. ANOUILH

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Book SynopsisRegard for George Oppen''s poetry has been growing steadily over the last decade. Peter Nicholls''s study offers a timely opportunity to engage with a body of work which can be both luminously simple and intriguingly opaque. Nicholls charts Oppen''s commitment to Marxism and his later explorations of a ''poetics of being'' inspired by Heidegger and Existentialism, providing detailed accounts of each of the poet''s books. He is the first critic to draw extensively on the Oppen archive, with its thousands of pages of largely unpublished notes and drafts for poems; in doing so, he is able to map the distinctive contours of Oppen''s poetic thinking and to investigate the complex origins of many of his poems. Oppen emerges from this study as a writer of mercurial intensities for whom every poem constitutes a ''beginning again'', a freeing of the mind from thoughts known in advance. A strikingly innovative and challenging poetics results from Oppen''s attempt to avoid what he regards as the Trade ReviewReview from previous edition ...an important book...subtly probing book... * Edward Neill MLR *...a fresh and engaging study of Oppen's work, his life and his relationship with the Objectivist movement...One of the strengths of this book is its extensive use of unpublished materials...It also provides a compelling rereading of Objectivism through Oppen's own continual reassessment of its usefulness as a term. * Emma Kimberly Journal of American Studies *a thoroughly researched and closely argued account * Jules Smith, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Beginning again ; 2. Materials ; 3. 'That it is', or This In Which ; 4. 'What it is': Of Being Numerous ; 5. From Avant-Garde to Hegel ; 6. A metaphysical edge': Seascape: Needle's Eye ; 7. 'Out of the whirl wind': Myth of the Blaze and Primitive ; Appendices

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