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Book SynopsisThis is a collection of difficult-to-find and typically early commentary on Conrad’s life and works. The selections contained shed light on Conrad’s life and works, as well as the way in which his works were promoted to the public. Selections include those by the American novelist Christopher Morley and the Irish novelist Liam O’Flaherty. Also included is a previously unpublished essay by Conrad’s friend Richard Curle. Of particular interest are the promotional materials, which are collected together for the first time and reveal how Conrad was perceived by the general reading public and how he was marketed by his publishers.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Abbreviations Biography Burton RASCOE, et al.: New York Greets Joseph Conrad on His First Visit to America Christopher MORLEY: Conrad and the Reporters Sir Hugh CLIFFORD: A Talk on Joseph Conrad and His Work Florence DOUBLEDAY: From Episodes in the Life of a Publisher‘s Wife Édouard RODITI: Meetings with Conrad James WHITAKER: Joseph Conrad at Stanford-le-Hope Appreciations Porter GARNETT: In Memoriam Joseph Conrad, Obiit August 3, 1924: The Honour of Labour A Tribute to a Great Seafarer Liam O‘FLAHERTY: Joseph Conrad: An Appreciation Early Criticism John Cowper POWYS: From Essays on Joseph Conrad and Oscar Wilde John Herman RANDALL: Joseph Conrad: His Outlook on Life G. JEAN-AUBRY: “Introduction” to Twenty Letters to Joseph Conrad Richard CURLE: The History of The Nigger of the “Narcissus”: Human, Literary, Bibliographical V. WALPOLE: Conrad‘s Method: Some Formal Aspects Publicity James HUNEKER, E. F. SAXTON, and Richard CURLE: Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad – A Prospectus: A Biographical Sketch & A List of His Books Published by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. Joseph Conrad: A Prospectus of the Uniform Edition of Joseph Conrad‘s Works Joseph Conrad: A Brief Chronicle Joseph Conrad: The Greatest Living Artist in English Prose Joseph Conrad: A Sketch with a Bibliography A Man Who Sailed the Seven Seas and Wrote His Tales to the Boom of the Distant Surf The New Kent Edition of Joseph Conrad Index

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Book SynopsisThe present volume has as its central aim a reassessment of the works of Ivan Turgenev for the twenty-first century. Against the background of a decline in interest in nineteenth-century literature the articles gathered here seek to argue that the period in general, and his work in particular, still have much to offer the modern sensibility. The volume also offers a great variety of approaches. Some of the contributors tackle major works by Turgenev, including Rudin and Smoke, while others address key themes that run through all his creative work. Yet others address his influence, as well as his broader relationship with Russian and other cultures. A final group of articles examines other key figures in Russian literary culture, including Belinskii, Herzen and Tolstoi. The work will therefore be of interest to students, postgraduates and specialists in the field of Russian literary culture. At the same time, they will stand as a tribute to the life and work of Professor Richard Peace, a long-standing specialist in nineteenth-century Russian literature, in whose honour the volume has been compiled.Trade Review”With his indepth, yet highly readable explorations of Turgenev’s writings and his cultural milieu, Turgenev and Russian Culture will prove useful for both specialists and general audiences.” in: Slavic and East European Journal 53.4 (Winter 2009)Table of ContentsDerek OFFORD: Richard Peace: An Appreciation Joe ANDREW: Introduction: Turgenev and Russian Culture Joe ANDREW: Death and the Maiden: Narrative, Space, Gender and Identity in Asia Michael BASKER: ‘The Poetry of Moscow Existence’: An Analysis of N.M. Iazykov’s Spring Night A.D.P. BRIGGS: Did Carmen really come from Russia (with a little help from Turgenev)? Leon BURNETT: Turgenev and the Sphinx Boris CHRISTA: A ‘Buttoned-up’ Hero of His Time: Turgenev’s Use of the Language of Vestimentary Markers in Rudin Ruth COATES: Mystical Union in the Philosophy of Vladimir Solovev Neil CORNWELL: First Loves and Last Rites: from Ivan Turgenev to John Banville Eric De HAARD: The Uses of Poetry in Turgenev’s Prose: A Quiet Spot Ros DIXON: ‘The avant-garde, you know, can easily become the rearguard. All it takes is a change of direction.’ Anatolii Efros’ Production of A Month in the Country: A Dialogue with Stanislavskii. Charles ELLIS: Tolstoi: Great Men and the Mathematical Mechanics of History Cynthia MARSH: Post-War British Month (s) in the Country Derek OFFORD: Worshipping the Golden Calf: the Intelligentsia’s Conception of the Bourgeois World in the Age of Nicholas Richard PEACE: The Dark Side of Turgenev Robert PORTER: The Paradoxes of Parody: Notes on the Art of Mikhail Zoshchenko and Evgenii Popov Michael PURSGLOVE: Dulcis fumus patriae: Tiutchev, Turgenev and Smoke Robert REID: A Hunter’s Sketches: A Peircean Perspective Alexandra SMITH: Nostalgic Visions and Mnemonic Figures: Tsvetaeva’s Allusions to Ivan Turgenev’s Goethian Outlook Claire WHITEHEAD: Ivan Turgenev’s Phantoms: The Spectre of Hesitation Richard Peace’s Publications: Compiled by Derek OFFORD

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Book SynopsisThe controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. This series of International Ford Madox Ford Studies was founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in him. Each volume is based upon a particular theme or issue; and relates aspects of Ford’s work, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his time. The present book is part of a large-scale reassessment of his roles in literary history. Ford is best-known for his fiction, especially The Good Soldier, long considered a modernist masterpiece; and Parade’s End, which Anthony Burgess described as ‘the finest novel about the First World War’; and Samuel Hynes has called ‘the greatest war novel ever written by an Englishman’. In these, as in most of his books, Ford renders and analyses the crucial transformations in modern society and culture. One of the most striking features of his career is his close involvement with so many of the major international literary groupings of his time. In the South-East of England at the fin-de-siècle, he collaborated for a decade with Joseph Conrad, and befriended Henry James and H. G. Wells. In Edwardian London he founded the English Review, publishing these writers alongside his new discoveries, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, and Wyndham Lewis. After the war he moved to France, founding the transatlantic review in Paris, taking on Hemingway as a sub-editor, discovering another generation of Modernists such as Jean Rhys and Basil Bunting, and publishing them alongside Joyce and Gertrude Stein. Besides his role as contributor and enabler to various versions of Modernism, Ford was also one of its most entertaining chroniclers. This volume includes twelve new essays on Ford’s engagement with the literary networks and cultural shifts of his era, by leading experts and younger scholars of Ford and Modernism. Two of the essays are by well-known creative writers: the novelist Colm Tóibín, and the novelist and cultural commentator Zinovy Zinik.Table of ContentsMax SAUNDERS: General Editor’s Preface Andrzej GASIOREK and Daniel MOORE: Introduction: Transitions, Continuities, Networks, Nuclei John ATTRIDGE: ‘We Will Listen to None but Specialists’: Ford, the Rise of Specialization, and the English Review Rob HAWKES: Personalities of Paper: Characterisation in A Call and The Good Soldier Colm TÓIBÍN: Outsiders in England and the Art of Being Found Out Andrzej GASIOREK: ‘Content to be Superseded’?: Ford in the Great London Vortex Alan MUNTON: The Insane Subject: Ford and Wyndham Lewis in the War and Post-War David TROTTER: Ford Against Lewis and Joyce Max SAUNDERS: Ford and Impressionism Nick HUBBLE: The Origins of Intermodernism in Ford Madox Ford’s Parallax View Isabelle BRASME: Between Impressionism and Modernism: Some Do Not . . ., a poetics of the Entre-deux Andrew FRAYN: ‘This Battle Was not Over’: Parade’s End as a Transitional Text in the Development of ‘Disenchanted’ First World War Literature Zinovy ZINIK: Ford Madox Ford: Mentors, Disciples, and a Ring of Mail Conspirators David JAMES: By Thrifty Design: Ford’s Bequest and Coetzee’s Homage Contributors Abstracts Abbreviations

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Book SynopsisEncore plus peut-être qu’un Michel Houellebecq (que l’on voit rarement à la télévision), Frédéric Beigbeder est le symbole d’une nouvelle génération de romanciers qui agace l’intelligentsia. Ainsi, la constatation initiale qui se trouve à l’origine de ce volume est qu’à cause de sa personnalité et de ses activités multiples, Beigbeder existe uniquement pour ses innombrables fidèles à travers le monde qui se satisfont de la lecture de ses romans. Pour les autres dans leur grande majorité - les critiques, les universitaires, les intellectuels – il ne mérite aucune attention sérieuse, ses œuvres n’existent pas. Or, en ce qui nous concerne, l’équation n’est pas si simple. D’où les pages qui suivent. Ce premier volume entièrement consacré à Beigebder réunit donc des romanciers, des journalistes et des universitaires des deux côtés de l’Atlantique. Il contient également un entretien et une correspondance inédits de Beigbeder.Table of ContentsAlain-Philippe DURAND : Frédéric Beigbeder et ses doubles Frédéric BEIGBEDER : Correspondance avec Alain-Phillipe Durand Alain-Philippe DURAND : Entretien avec Frédéric Beigbeder Olivier LE NAIRE : Le croisé et le rusé, entretien avec Frédéric Beigbeder et Richard Millet Frédéric BEIGBEDER : Pour un nouveau nouveau roman Benoît DUTEURTRE : Beigbeder et son contraire Philippe VILAIN : L’égo beigbederien Alain-Phillippe DURAND : Défense de Narcisse (Frédéric Beigbeder) Ralph SCHOOLCRAFT III : Pour prendre au sérieux Frédéric Beigbeder Martine DELVAUX : L’égoisme romantique de Frédéric Beigbeder Naomi MANDEL : Fiction et fidélité : Windows on the World William CLOONAN : L’image comme image : le (possible) triomphe du Simulacre dans l’univers de Beigbeder Yves DE LA QUÉRIÈRE : L’écume des nuits : Vacances dans le coma de Frédéric Beigbeder Sabine VAN WESEMAEL : Le potentiel transgressif de l’art contemporain Richard MCINTYRE : Shopping avec Octave Résumés

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Book SynopsisInvestigating Identities: Questions of Identity in Contemporary International Crime Fiction is one of the relatively few books to date which adopts a comparative approach to the study of the genre. This collection of twenty essays by international scholars, examining crime fiction production from over a dozen countries, confirms that a comparative approach can both shed light on processes of adaptation and appropriation of the genre within specific national, regional or local contexts, and also uncover similarities between the works of authors from very different areas. Contributors explore discourse concerning national and historical memory, language, race, ethnicity, culture and gender, and examine how identity is affirmed and challenged in the crime genre today. They reveal a growing tendency towards hybridization and postmodern experimentation, and increasing engagement with philosophical enquiry into the epistemological dimensions of investigation. Throughout, the notion of stable identities is subject to scrutiny. While each essay in itself is a valuable addition to existing criticism on the genre, all the chapters mutually inform and complement each other in fascinating and often unexpected ways. This volume makes an important contribution to the growing field of crime fiction studies and to ongoing debates on questions of identity. It will therefore be of special interest to students and scholars of the crime genre, identity studies and comparative literature. It will also appeal to all who enjoy reading contemporary crime fiction.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Marieke KRAJENBRINK and Kate M. QUINN: Introduction: Investigating Identities Eva ERDMANN: Nationality International: Detective Fiction in the Late Twentieth Century Stewart KING: Articulating and Disarticulating Culture and Identity in Vázquez Montalbán’s Serie Carvalho Anne M. WHITE and Shelley GODSLAND: Popular Genre and the Politics of the Periphery: Catalan Crime Fiction by Women Anne L. WALSH: Questions of Identity: An Exploration of Spanish Detective Fiction Sjef HOUPPERMANS: Abyss of the Senses: Les Rivières pourpres by Jean-Christophe Grangé Agnès MAILLOT: Fractured Identities: Jean-Claude Izzo’s Total Khéops Arlene A. TERAOKA: Detecting Ethnicity: Jakob Arjouni and the Case of the Missing German Detective Novel John SCAGGS: Double Identity: Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and the Divided “I” Theo D’HAEN: Plum’s the Girl! Janet Evanovich and the Empowerment of Ms Common America Willem G. WESTSTEIJN: Murder and Love: Russian Women Detective Writers Hans ESTER: Perspectives on the Detective Novel in Afrikaans Beate BURTSCHER-BECHTER: Wanted: National Algerian Identity Marisol MORALES LADRÓN: “Troubling” Thrillers: Politics and Popular Fiction in Northern Ireland Literature Sabine VANACKER: Double Dutch: Image and Identity in Dutch and Flemish Crime Fiction Christopher JONES: Cultural Identity in Swiss German Detective Fiction Marieke KRAJENBRINK: Unresolved Identities in Roth and Rabinovici: Reworking the Crime Genre in Austrian Literature Costantino C. M. MAEDER: Crime Novels in Italy Philip SWANSON: The Detective and the Disappeared: Memory, Forgetting and Other Confusions in Juan José Saer’s La pesquisa Kate M. QUINN: Cases of Identity Concealed and Revealed in Chilean Detective Fiction Brian DUFFY: From a Good Firm Knot to a Mess of Loose Ends: Identity and Solution in Martin Amis’ Night Train Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisInfluential author of highly unconventional crime fiction, screenwriter, and occasional film director, Sébastien Japrisot was one of those rare contemporary writers in France able to establish an international reputation for himself. Although Japrisot’s novels in particular continue to be read and studied across the world, this volume is the first ever academic study of Japrisot’s work in the fields of both literature and cinema. Through a combination of thematic and text-specific studies, this volume takes in, and examines the legacy of, Japrisot’s work from his youthful writings under his real name, Jean-Baptiste Rossi, to his crime fiction and screen writings of the 1960s and 1970s, concluding with his final novel Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement). It is both an essential introduction to Japrisot and a valuable academic assessment of his work’s importance in the field of contemporary French literature and film.Table of ContentsJacques DUBOIS: Preface Martin HURCOMBE and Simon KEMP: Introduction Part I Martin HURCOMBE: Conflicting Testimonies: Dialogic Oppositions in Japrisot’s Suspense Novels Véronique DESNAIN: Sébastien et les femmes: Gender and Identity in the Crime Novels of Sébastien Japrisot Simon KEMP: Japrisot on Film Part II Victoria BEST: Patterns of Submission and Domination: from Jean-Baptiste Rossi to Sébastien Japrisot Susan M. MYERS: An Allegory of Reading: Ambiguity, Discovery, and the Reader’s Role in Piège pour Cendrillon Yolanda VIÑAS DEL PALACIO: Sébastien Japrisot: Adventures in Reading and Writing David BELLOS: The Lesson of L’Été meurtrier Claire GORRARA: Through the Looking Glass: Defeats of Detection in Sébastien Japrisot’s L’Été meurtrier Andrea GOULET: Things Buried: Crypt and Cryptonym in Un long dimanche de fiançailles Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisMolloy est sans doute l’une des œuvres beckettiennes qui a suscité le plus d’interprétations variées et parfois même contradictoires. Modalités po(ï)étiques de configuration textuelle : le cas de « Molloy » de Samuel Beckett prend comme point de départ cet état de fait, l’interroge et propose que la texture du roman en est largement responsable. En tant qu’artefact langagier, Molloy exploite exemplairement les possibilités contextuelles de signification de la langue française, aussi bien linguistiquement que littérairement. L’ouvrage procède à une série de micro-lectures qui réévaluent à fond la fonction textuelle de ce qu’on convient d’appeler les « jeux de mots » de Molloy. Il montre que les manières dont ces « jeux » sont inscrits dans leurs environnements restreints et étendus favorisent l’actualisation des significations multiples. Ces possibilités plurielles de signification sont poursuivies conséquemment non seulement à travers le Molloy français, mais aussi à travers les rapports que celui-ci entretient avec le Molloy anglais, d’une part, et avec des textes beckettiens et non-beckettiens pré-Molloy, d’autre part. Les « jeux de mots » du roman se découvrent ainsi être les pierres angulaires d’une complexe configuration architexturale. L’étude de cas de Molloy que présente Modalités po(ï)étiques de configuration textuelle est potentiellement pertinente pour l’ensemble du corpus beckettien dans la mesure où la méthode intégrative d’analyse utilisée est susceptible de révéler de nouvelles données concernant la particularité de texturation de ce corpus, de même que des œuvres individuelles qui le composent. L’ouvrage s’adresse aux lecteurs de Beckett, mais aussi à ceux qui s’intéressent à des questions touchant à la traduction, voire l’auto-traduction littéraire, à l’intertextualité et aux approches linguistiques de la littérature qui reposent sur la sémantique cognitive et interprétative.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapitre 1. La critique beckettienne et les « jeux de mots » de Molloy Chapitre 2. Po(ï)éticité et intra-textualité dans Molloy Chapitre 3. Molloy et la po(ï)éticité métaphorique Chapitre 4. Molloy/Molloy : (auto-)traduction et po(ï)éticité intra-inter-textuelle Chapitre 5. Auto-textualité et inter-textualité po(ï)étiques dans Molloy Conclusions générales Annexes Bibliographie d’ouvrages cités

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Book SynopsisAlthough it has often been pointed out that the protagonists of Joseph Conrad’s novels frequently fail in what they attempt to achieve, the forces that oppose them have rarely been examined systematically. Furthermore, no sustained attempts have been made to rigorously address the central philosophical issue the characters’ predicament raises: that of the freedom-of-the-will. This interdisciplinary study seeks to remedy this neglect by taking recourse not only to the philosophical debate about free will and determinism but also to the relevant historical, economic, scientific, and literary discourses in the Victorian and Early-Modernist periods. Against this background a paradigmatic analysis of three of Conrad’s most significant novels – Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, and The Secret Agent – investigates the writer’s position in the free will and determinism debate by identifying certain recurring themes in which the freedom-of-the-will problem manifests itself. Light is thereby also thrown on a central Conradian paradox: how Conrad can insist on morality and moral responsibility, which presupposes the existence of free will, in a materialist-deterministic world, which denies it.

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Book SynopsisThis innovative volume discusses the significance of home and global mobility in contemporary diasporic fiction written in English. Through analyses of central diasporic and migrant writers in the United Kingdom and the United States, the timely volume exposes the importance of home and its reconstruction in diasporic literature in the era of globalization and increasing transnational mobility. Through wide-ranging case studies dealing with a variety of black British and ethnic American writers, Home, Identity, and Mobility in Contemporary Diasporic Fiction shows how new identities and homes are constructed in the migrants’ new homelands. The volume examines how diasporic novels inscribe hybridity and multiplicity in formerly uniform spaces and subvert traditional understandings of nation, citizenship, and history. Particular emphasis is on the ways in which diasporic fictions appropriate and transform traditional literary genres such as the Bildungsroman and the picaresque to explore the questions of migration and transformation. The authors discussed include Caryl Phillips, Jamal Mahjoub, Mike Phillips, Hari Kunzru, Kamila Shamsie, Benjamin Zephaniah, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Cynthia Kadohata, Ana Castillo, Diana Abu-Jaber, and Bharati Mukherjee. The volume is of particular interest to all scholars and students of post-colonial and ethnic literatures in English.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Diaspora, Home, Writing Part One: Black British Perspectives From Black Britain to the Caribbean: The Return of the (Im)Migrant in Caryl Phillips’s A State of Independence Exile, History, and Migrancy in Jamal Mahjoub’s The Carrier The Hybridization of Europe in Mike Phillips’s A Shadow of Myself The Politics of Self-Making in Post-Colonial Fiction: The Bildung of Pretty Bobby in Hari Kunzru’s The Impressionist Narratives of Diaspora and Trauma in Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron Britain, “Home”, and Diaspora in the Refugee Novels by Benjamin Zephaniah, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Caryl Phillips Part Two: Diasporic Americans The Hybridity of the Asian American Subject in Cynthia Kadohata’s The Floating World Migration and Diaspora in Ana Castillo’s Sapogonia Writing Diasporic Identity in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent Transnational Travel in Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters Home, Transnationalism, and Transformation in Bharati Mukherjee’s Leave It to Me Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDisappearing Men examines the complex and rebellious representations of gender in the work of several writers of ‘devolutionary’ Scottish fiction in the period 1979 to 1999. The study focuses on the context of a ‘crisis in masculinity’ accompanying the rapidly changing male role in the period, concluding that men often disappear from sight in this writing, highlighting issues of male insecurity and female disorientation in a new gender landscape. Hence the novels examined here by authors James Kelman, Jancie Galloway, Jackie Kay, A.L. Kennedy and Alan Warner, strongly challenge the stereotype of the Scottish ‘hardman’ and his dominance in 20th century Scottish fiction. Disappearing Men dissects this challenge by giving major consideration to the relationship between the innovative literary forms often found in this writing and the concepts of selfhood they give rise to. The possibilities inherent in these texts of reimagining gender identity and relations make them important contemporary documents of our struggles with realising selfhood and relations with others. A sustained and intimate analysis, this monograph will be of crucial interest to those concerned with issues of gender and representation in our rapidly changing era.Trade Review”… an invaluable addition to inquiries into the value and significance of dwelling for Scottish writers since the mid-nineteenth century, but also commendable for the method by which it outlines developments in ecological thought from this period onwards…” in: Scottish Literary Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2011Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Dissonant Selves and the Literature of Gender Disorientation Chapter One: James Kelman – “that was him, out of sight”: Masculine Models and Limitations Chapter Two: Janice Galloway – “Defying Gravity”: Escaping the Attractions of Patriarchy Chapter Three: Being Between: Passing and the Limits of Subverting Masculinity in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet Chapter Four: A.L. Kennedy – Indelible Belief: The Quest for Faith in Uncertainty Chapter Five: Alan Warner: Escape from Masculinity Afterword: “Burying the Man That Was” Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAsymptote: An Approach to Decadent Fiction offers a radically new approach to the psychology of Decadent creation. Rejecting traditional arguments that Decadence is a celebration of deviance and exhaustion, this study presents the fin-de-siecle novel as a transformative process, a quest for health. By allowing the writer to project into fiction unwanted traits and destructive tendencies – by permitting the playful invention of provisional identities –, Decadent creation itself becomes a dynamic act of creative regeneration. In describing the interrelationship of Decadent authors and their fictions, Asymptote uses the mathematical figure of the asymptote to show how they converge, then split apart, and grow distant. The author’s approach to the facsimile selves he plays with and discards is the curve that never merges with his authorial identity. In successive chapters, this study describes the Decadents’ experimentation with perversion (Huysmans’s A rebours and Mendes’s Zo’har), and their subsequent validation of social regulation and creative discipline. It examines magic and its appeal to fantasies of elitism and omnipotence (Péladan’s Le Vice supreme and Villiers’s Axël ), then shows authors embracing the values of community and service. It considers the Decadent text as a vehicle of change in which an artist ventilates fantasies of aggression and revenge (Mirbeau’s Le Journal d’une femme de chamber and Rachilde’s La Marquise de Sade) then employs writing as the means by which these feelings are discharged. It examines creation as a form of play, “une aliénation grâce à laquelle l’esprit se récupère sous la forme des autres” (Schwob’s Vies imaginaries and Lorrain’s Histoires de masques), yet notes the Decadents’ decision to return to a single generative center. Finally, it examines creation as an expression of artistic transience and failure, yet shows the Decadents’ success in commemorating the very forces of disintegration (Rodenbach’s L’Art en exil). In considering the Decadents’ insistence on subjectivism and aloneness, this study concludes (Gourmont’s Sixtine) by showing their wish to escape the prison of identity and to redefine their art as cooperative creation.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Perversion The Pervert, the Aesthete, and the Author: J.K. Huysman’s A rebours One in the Blood: Catulle Mendès’s Zo’har Chapter Two: Magic The Grammar and the Key: Joséphin Péladan’s Le Vice supreme Our Servants’ Work: Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s Axël Chapter Three: Change Dogs, Parrots, Jews, and Women: Octave Mirbeau’s Le Journal d’une femme de chambre Baby Doll: Rachilde’s La Marquise de Sade Chapter Four: Play Biography as Mask: Marcel Schwob’s Vies imaginaires Imposture and Collusion: Jean Lorrain’s Histoires de masques Chapter Five: Creation The Poetics of Evanescence: Georges Rodenbach’s L’Art en exil Out of the Great Absence: Remy de Gourmont’s Sixtine Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Solidarity to Schisms is the first collection to expand discussions of the effects the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath have had on fiction and film beyond an exclusively US-based focus. The essays brought together here go beyond critiquing the US to examine the cultural shifts taking place in fiction and cinema from places such as Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Pakistan, Canada, Israel, and Iran. From these many sites of production, the works discussed in this collection illustrate more precisely how 9/11 was “global” without succumbing to neat categorizations, such as “us vs. them,” “East vs. West,” “Christianity vs. Islam,” and so on. From Solidarity to Schisms is an important supplement to the US-centered cultural and critical production addressing 9/11, providing researchers and teachers alike with resources and contexts that will allow them to broaden their own examinations of novels and films by Americans and about the US. It also provides a valuable resource for students and scholars of contemporary global history and international politics who are interested in approaching 9/11, terrorism and counter-terrorism, and related topics from a cultural standpoint.Trade Review"[…] the breadth of analysis on display here provides a range of perspectives that defeats any monolithic thinking with regard to this monumental event." – Ian Copestake, Bamberg, in: ARCHIV 248/2 (2011), pp. 450-2 "Often the only “foreign” responses examined in collections about 9/11 are the British and French ones, but the excellent essays Cilano (Univ. Of North Carolina, Wilmington) has collected take in artistic responses in Germany, Pakistan, Israel, Iran, Canada, and Australia, among other countries. The collection is smartly written and arranged, with helpful abstracts at the head of each essay and a clear style throughout." – in: Choice 47/11 (August 2010)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Ewa Lipska, trans. Margret Grebowicz: September 11, 2001 Cara Cilano: Introduction: From Solidarity to Schisms Magali Cornier Michael: Writing Fiction in the Post-9/11 World: Ian McEwan’s Saturday Brandon Kempner: “Blow the World Back Together”: Literary Nostalgia, 9/11, and Terrorism in Seamus Heaney, Chris Cleave, and Martin Amis Ulrike Tancke: Uses and Abuses of Trauma in Post-9/11 Fiction and Contemporary Culture Ana Cristina Mendes: “Artworks, Unlike Terrorists, Change Nothing”: Salman Rushdie and September 11 Henrike Lehnguth: Sleepers, Informants, and the Everyday: Theorizing Terror and Ambiguity in Benjamin Heisenberg’s Schläfer Gavin Hicks: My Roommate the Terrorist: The Political Burden of September 11 in Elmar Fischer’s The Friend Alison J. Murray Levine: Ghosts on the Skyline: Chris Marker’s France after 9/11 Carolyn A. Durham: Daring to Imagine: Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World and Slimane Benaïssa’s La Dernière Nuit d’un damné Silvia Schultermandl: Perspectival Adjustments and Hyper-Reality in 11’09”01 Cara Cilano: Manipulative Fictions: Democratic Futures in Pakistan Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake: Canadian Post-9/11 Worries William Anselmi and Sheena Wilson: From Inch’Allah Dimanche to Sharia in Canada: Empire Management, Gender Representations, and Communication Strategies in the Twenty-First Century Sofia Ahlberg: Within Oceanic Reach: The Effects of September 11 on a Drought-Stricken Nation Nathanael O’Reilly: Government, Media, and Power in the Australian Novel since 9/11 Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume is of interest for lovers and students of Jeanette Winterson’s writing and introduces for the first time a book-length examination of the love stories she has created. Each main novel, from Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit to The Stone Gods, is analysed in detail and theorists ranging from Derrida, to Freud, to Kristeva are invoked to help discuss the paradox that is written into the passion in these works. Love, it is argued here, is central to her writing and this book also unfolds the influences and aspirations that have shaped her style.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Ties That Bind: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Love, Testing the Limits of Freedom in The Passion Writing Strategies: Love, Politics and Art in Sexing the Cherry Undying Love: Written on the Body The Language of Love: Art and Lies Cheating Hearts: Gut Symmetries Old and New Love Stories: The.Powerbook Divided Selves In Lighthousekeeping and The Stone Gods Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does the story of Robinson Crusoe have to do with understanding past and present women’s lives? The Female Crusoe: Hybridity, Trade and the Eighteenth-Century Individual investigates the possibility that Daniel Defoe’s famous work was informed by qualities attributed to trade, luxury and credit and described as feminine in the period. In this volume, Robinson Crusoe and the female castaway narratives published in its wake emerge as texts of social criticism that draw on neglected values of race and gender to challenge the dominant values of society. Such narratives worked to establish status and authority for marginalised characters and subjects who were as different, and as similar, as Defoe’s gentleman-tradesman and Wollstonecraft’s independent woman. The Female Crusoe goes on to address the twentieth-century engagement with the castaway tale, showing how three contemporary authors, in their complex and gendered negotiations of power and identity, echo, even while they challenge, the concerns of their eighteenth-century predecessors. This work will be of interest to students interested in literary engagements with individualism and women’s rights in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction The Critical Fortunes of Robinson Crusoe Crusoe and the “Female Goddesses of Disorder” Credit, Virginity and the Cannibal-consumer The Social Contract and the Widow The Female Castaway as Translator The Virginal Individual Mothers and Daughters of the New World Female Sexual Desire and Independence Crusoe and Modern Woman Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSoupçonnée d’imposture dès sa première rentrée littéraire, accusée d’être un homme âgé publiant sous un pseudonyme invraisemblable, Amélie Nothomb est une auteure qui – plus que d’autres – a dû s’inventer. Dans Les Identités d’Amélie Nothomb, Mark D. Lee revient sur les circonstances qui ont marqué les débuts d’une carrière extraordinaire et pour la première fois, il confronte les multiples constructions médiatiques de notre ‘barge belge’ avec l’énigme de l’invention identitaire qui se déploie dans son écriture fascinante, surtout dans Métaphysique des tubes. A travers des analyses accessibles aux spécialistes comme aux amateurs, Lee trace les différentes variations d’un roman familial dans la fiction de l’auteure et il explore l’élaboration et l’échec de sa version japonaise dans ses œuvres autobiographiques. Juxtaposant interviews et récits littéraires, Lee identifie ensuite un ‘désastre onomastique’, point de départ et fondement de la quête identitaire nothombienne et explore son retour unheimliche – étrangement inquiétant – dans la représentation de la sexualité, de la nationalité, et jusque dans la scène même de l’écriture. Entre baptêmes et ‘dé-baptêmes’, entre noyades, exorcismes et fantasmes nippons, Les Identités d’Amélie Nothomb est une étude fondamentale pour ceux et celles qui veulent comprendre la question cruciale de l’identité chez cette auteure.Table of ContentsRemerciements Introduction L’identité médiatique L’invention littéraire Orphelines et Orphelins: Le roman familial chez Amélie Nothomb Noyades et baptêmes: morts et naissances En conclusion: L’apatride belge Bibliographie

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Book SynopsisImpotence and Making in Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy is situated at the intersection of the aesthetic, socio-political and theoretical construction of being and not-being; it is about making the self, making others, and making words, set against being unable to make the self, others and words. Concentrating on Samuel Beckett’s prose works, though also focusing on some of his dramatic works, the book aims to problematize the categories of ‘impotence’ and ‘making’ by showing Beckett’s quasi-deconstructive treatment of them as seen through his narrators’ images of being unable to make self, other creatures and words (impotence), along with his narrators’ images of making self, other creatures and words (making). By demonstrating that his narrators, while being impotent, nevertheless gestate and produce new entities from their bodies in the same way as a mother does a child, the book aims to reveal how, for Beckett’s narrators, creativity in its widest sense is envisaged.Table of ContentsIntroduction Trilogy Bodies Trilogy Words Ambiguous Bodies Ambiguous Words Bodies and Words in How It Is Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBouvard et Pécuchet, œuvre posthume et inachevée de Flaubert, présente la particularité d’être ostensiblement encyclopédique. Les deux protagonistes parcourant presque toutes les sections des connaissances humaines de l’époque, le texte romanesque se trouve saturé d’innombrables extraits prélevés sur les ouvrages les plus divers. La rédaction de cet étrange roman a en effet requis un travail considérable de documentation, comme en témoignent les dossiers documentaires qui comprennent notamment une importante masse de notes de lecture prises par l’écrivain au fil de ses lectures préparatoires. Flaubert épistémologue a pour objet l’examen précis et attentif du travail documentaire effectué par le romancier. Elle est centrée sur l’une des disciplines-phares de l’« encyclopédie critique en farce », la médecine, dont il est question au chapitre III du roman, et qui est d’un intérêt majeur, en ce sens qu’elle entretenait au XIXe siècle un rapport étroit avec la littérature. L’étude approfondie des notes que l’auteur de Bouvard a prises sur la médecine permettra d’éclairer l’interférence des deux pratiques discursives, médicale d’une part, littéraire de l’autre. C’est ainsi que l’on pourra restituer à l’entreprise esthétique de Flaubert sa véritable portée critique et épistémologique, et par là même, saisir le roman dans sa dimension dialogique.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Le roman comme mode d’interrogation critique Flaubert et la médecine La portée critique du roman encyclopédique Comique de la médecine Flaubert contre la médecine expérimentale Contradictions de la médecine Exposition critique d’un paradigme médical Corps et mots: l’hygiène comme champ de contradictions Style et idéologie Conclusion: Éthique de l’écriture Index des transcriptions Bibliographie

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Book SynopsisGoodbye Yeats and O’Neill is a reading of one or two books recently written by the following major authors: Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, John McGahern, William Trevor, Seamus Deane, Nuala O’Faolain, Patrick McCabe, Colum McCann, Nick Laird, Gerry Adams, Claire Boylan, Frank McCourt, Tim O’Brien, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Alice McDermott, Edward J. Delaney, Beth Lordan, William Kennedy, Thomas Kelly, and Mary Gordon. The study argues that farce has been a major mode of recent Irish and Irish-American fiction and memoir—a primary indicator of the state of both Irish and Irish-American cultures in the early twenty-first century.Trade Review”…[The book introduces] important issues that demand the ongoing attention of anyone interested in Irish Studies.” in: Irish Literary Supplement, 2011Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction. The Donkeys and the Narrowbacks: Contemporary Circus Animals Part One: Memoirs – Defining Where We Are Now 1. Defining the Object for Struggle: Epistemology in the Age of Autobiography – Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes and Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark 2. Belfast and South Boston: Cut off from Serious Consideration – Gerry Adams, Before the Dawn and Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls 3. The Void of Irish Identity: Nuala O’Faolain, Are You Somebody Part Two: The Writers Strike Back: Using Irony to Subvert the Fascination of Cultural Studies 4. Tim O’Brien’s Ironic Aesthetic: Faith and the Nature of a “True” Story (co-authored with John Briggs) 5. The Delusion of Cultural Studies: Colm Tóibín, The Blackwater Lightship Part Three: Serious and Not-So-Serious Farce in Contemporary Irish Fiction 6. Picaresque Farce: Nick Laird, Utterly Monkey 7. Icons for the New Age: The Transvestite in Patrick McCabe’s Breakfast on Pluto and the Ballet Dancer in Colum McCann’s Dancer 8. Home Isn‘t There Any More: William Trevor’s The Story of Lucy Gault and John McGahern’s By the Lake 9. Transforming Nostalgia for the Victorian: Clare Boylan’s Charlotte Brontë Novel, Emma Brown 10. The Irish Western Epic: Roddy Doyle Remakes John Ford – The Last Roundup Part Four: Farce in Contemporary Irish-American Fiction: Symptom of the Triviality of American Society 11. The American Wake: Alice McDermott, Child of My Heart 12. Being Irish and Being Nothing: The Abyss of Identity in Alice McDermott’s Charming Billy and Edward J. Delaney’s Fiction 13. The Headache and the Aspirin: Sex as Disease and Cure in Sherman Alexie’s The Toughest Indian in the World, Colum McCann’s This Side of Brightness, and Other Contemporary Stories 14. Low Seriousness in Beth Lordan’s But Come Ye Back 15. The Decay of Lying? On Life Support in William Kennedy’s Roscoe and Thomas Kelly’s The Rackets 16. Visiting the American Sixties on Ireland: Mary Gordon’s Pearl 17. The Necessity and Futility of Romance: Thomas Kelly’s Empire Rising Part Five: An Historian’s Need to Define the Irish Story 18. What Is the Irish Story? R.F. Foster’s The Irish Story Postscript: The Function of Farce at the Present Time Appendix: The Pattern of Reading in the Dark Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. This series of International Ford Madox Ford Studies was founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in him. Each volume is based upon a particular theme or issue; and relates aspects of Ford’s work, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his time. Modernist periodicals and editorial theory have been very productive areas in recent research. This volume focuses on Ford and editing. Ford was one of the greatest editors of Modernist magazines. He founded the English Review in Edwardian London, publishing Henry James, Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and D. H. Lawrence. His editorial relationships with all of these writers are examined in detail here, as are those with Jean Rhys, Ernest Hemingway, and Basil Bunting, connected with the transatlantic review launched by Ford in post-war Paris, which also carried experimental work by James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Tristan Tzara. These seventeen essays bring together distinguished scholars and poets, as well as younger experts on Modernism and its magazine culture. This collection provides a wealth of new research on the management, cultural politics, and editorial stance of Ford’s magazines; on the impact of his editorial contacts on his own and others’ work; and on editorial approaches to his writing, including his best-known novels, The Good Soldier and Parade’s End.Table of ContentsMax Saunders: General Editor’s Preface Jason Harding: Introduction Philip Horne: Henry James and the English Review Gene M. Moore: Ford as Editor in Joseph Conrad’s ‘The Planter of Malata’ Nick Hubble: A Music-Hall Double Act: Fordie and Wells’s English Review George Hyde: Lawrence, Ford, Strong Readings, and Weak Nerves Seamus O’Malley: The Ferociously Odd, Mutually Beneficial Editorial Relationship of Ford and Wyndham Lewis Peter Robinson: ‘Written at least as well as prose’: Ford, Pound, and Poetry Richard Price: ‘His care for living English’: Ford Madox Ford and Basil Bunting Elizabeth O’Connor: Jean Rhys’s Quartet: A Re-inscription of Ford’s The Good Soldier Nora Tomlinson: ‘An old man mad about writing’ but hopeless with money: Ford Madox Ford and the Finances of the English Review Simon Grimble: ‘A few inches above the moral atmosphere of these islands’: The Perspectives of the English Review John Attridge: Liberalism and Modernism in the Edwardian Era: New Liberals at Ford’s English Review Stephen Rogers: The transatlantic review (1924) Andrzej Gasiorek: Editing the transatlantic review: Literary Magazines and the Public Sphere Elena Lamberti: ‘Wandering Yankees’: The transatlantic review or How the Americans Came to Europe Martin Stannard: Cutting Remarks: What Went Missing from The Good Soldier Isabelle Brasme: ‘A caricature of his own voice’: Ford and Self-Editing in Parade’s End Ashley Chantler: Editing Ford Madox Ford’s Poetry Contributors Abstracts Abbreviations

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Book SynopsisExplosive Narratives: Terrorism and Anarchy in the Works of Emile Zola explores the genealogy of modern day terrorism through a close study of the anarchist figure in three of Emile Zola’s novels: Germinal, Paris, and Travail. The study links the crisis of representation registered at the end of the 19th century with the rise of terrorism embodied in the bomb-throwing anarchist. It thereby traces Zola’s evolving thoughts on anarchy from the terrorist to the humanitarian reformer, from class warfare to a peaceful artisan commune, from a naturalist depiction of an elusive reality to a utopian writing fleeing the contingencies of the historical. The volume brings together aesthetic, political, urban, and scientific debates of Belle Epoque France and it will thus be of great interest not only to Zola scholars, but also to students of late 19th-century politics and art.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Anarchy, Entropy, Naturalism Anarchy Entropy Naturalism Chapter 1: Souvarine’s Vanishing Act: The Effacement of Anarchy in Germinal The Ambiguous Politics of Germinal The Resurgence of Anarchy from the Underground Mine Undermining Narratives: The Sub-text of Anarchy Chapter 2: Anarchy as Narrative Capital: The Emplotment of Terrorism in Paris The Political Discourse in Paris Anarchy as Narrative Capital Towards Utopia: Taking the Bite Out of Anarchy Chapter 3: The Anarchic Commune as World’s Fair in Travail Ideological Welding: Fourier and Anarchism Revolutionary Rape as Entropic Heat Death Beyond Narrative Entropy: Utopia The Anarchic Commune as World’s Fair Epilogue: Zola’s Dream Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTurgenev is in many ways the most enigmatic of the great nineteenth-century Russian writers. A realist, he was nevertheless drawn towards symbolism and the supernatural in his later career. Renowned for his authentic depictions of Russian life, he spent long periods in Europe and was more Western in outlook than many of his contemporaries. Though he stood aloof from politics, the major political issues of nineteenth-century Russia are central to his fiction. Interest in Turgenev remains strong in the twenty-first century, sustained by the amenability of his work to contemporary critical approaches and also by a recognition of the continuing relevance of his perspective on the perennial complexities of Russia’s relations with Europe. This volume provides ample evidence of this interest. The chapters which comprise it are written by specialists on the writer and cover many aspects of Turgenev’s creativity from his artistic method to such issues as the Jewish Question and Europe. It also examines his cultural legacy - in film and recent popular re-writes of his novels - as well as his influence on writers as diverse as Rozanov and Robert Dessaix. This work will be of interest to students, postgraduates and specialists in the field of Russian literary culture.Trade Review"This large diverse collection of papers presented at a conference at Mansfield College, Oxford, in 2006 adds welcome weight to the accumulating scholarship on Turgenev. […]The volume begins strongly with an intriguing piece by Irene Masing-Delic on a repeated scenario of transgression into hidden or forbidden spaces in Turgenev’s short prose." – Dale E. Paterson, Amherst College, in: Slavic and East European Journal 56/3 (2012), pp. 461-463 "Overall, this is a stimulating collection, which will appeal both to Turgenev specialists and the general Slavist reader." – in: The Russian Review 70/3 (July 2011), p. 505Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors Robert Reid: Introduction: Turgenev: Art, Ideology and Legacy Turgenev’s Art Irene Masing-Delic: Hidden Spaces in Turgenev’s Short Prose: What They Conceal and What They Show Steven Brett Shaklan: ‘So Many Foreign and Useless Words!’: Ivan Turgenev’s Poetics of Negation Joost van Baak: Turgenev-Bricoleur: Observations on the World of Turgenev’s Sketches from a Hunter’s Album Sander Brouwer: First Love, but not First Lover: Turgenev’s Poetics of Unoriginality Erica Siegel: Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick: The Language of Things in Fathers and Sons Willem G. Weststeijn: The Description of the Appearance of Characters in Turgenev’s Novels (in particular Fathers and Sons) Turgenev’s Ideology Kathryn Ambrose: Turgenev’s Representation of the ‘New People’ Richard Freeborn: No Smoke without a Bit of Fire Elena Katz: Turgenev and the ‘Jewish Question’ Greta Slobin: Turgenev Finds a Home in Russia Abroad Turgenev’s Legacy Justin Weir: Turgenev as Institution: Sketches from a Hunter’s Album in Tolstoi’s Early Aesthetics Henrietta Mondry: A Wrong Kind of Love - A Teacher of Sex on a Teacher of Love: Vasilii Rozanov on Turgenev and Viardot Otto Boele: After Death, the Movie (1915) - Ivan Turgenev, Evgenii Bauer and the Aesthetics of Morbidity Rachel Morley: Performing Femininity in an Age of Change: Evgenii Bauer, Ivan Turgenev and the Legend of Evlaliia Kadmina Kevin Windle and Rosh Ireland: Turgenev’s Antipodean Echoes: Robert Dessaix and his Russian Mentor Olga Soboleva and Pogos Saiadian: Ivan Sergeev, Fathers and Sons: The Phenomenon of the Nouveau-Russian Novel

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Book SynopsisTactical Silence in the Novels of Malika Mokeddem, an inquiry into how silence may be used to challenge a gender-differentiated power system, relies on Michel de Certeau’s model of strategies and tactics applied to a postcolonial assessment of both Algerian literature in French as well as Algerian women’s stereotyped silence. This book analyzes the relationship between tactical silence and freedom in the lives of Mokeddem’s female protagonists in all her novels, published between 1990 and 2008. The notion of deliberate silence also lends itself to a discussion of the reader’s efforts in comprehending Mokeddem’s textual silences as well as her exclusion of certain topics from her writings.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Broaching Silence Tactics and Strategies in Algerian Letters Speaking of Silence Manipulating Silence Tactical Silence in Reading Textual Silences and the Reader’s Tactics Conclusion: The Threat of Silence Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis retrospective study examines short fiction in the context of stylistic tradition in New Zealand’s literary history. By exploring the extent to which the major exponents of twentieth-century short fiction extend the traditions of realism and impressionism as initiated by Katherine Mansfield and Frank Sargeson, this study embraces the stylistic diversity of twentieth-century New Zealand short fiction in both Pakeha and Maori traditions.Trade Review”Written with flair and clarity, Joel Gwynne’s book makes an important contribution to scholarship on the New Zealand short story by revealing the limitations of the polarised critical categories that have been used in the past. It constitutes the most substantial extended consideration to date of New Zealand short fiction, and, by offering fresh and nuanced readings of the stories of five major writers, should prove an invaluable resource for scholars and students alike.” - Alistair Fox, Professor of English, University of OtagoTable of ContentsIntroduction Frank Sargeson (1903-1982): “Gold and Quick Silver in the Hollows” Maurice Duggan (1922-1974): “Exegesis to His Cryptic Utterance” Janet Frame (1924-2004) “You Don’t Really Believe in Categories Like That, Do You?” Patricia Grace (1937-): “It’s High and Holy Work” Owen Marshall (1941-): “There’s No Distinction Between Fact and Fiction in the Land of Living Death” Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the 1950s prolific U.S. fiction writer Stephen Marlowe became a cult author for lovers of noir fiction mainly for his Drumbeat series, which present his best-known character: private eye Chester Drum. Yet, the academia never paid much attention to his multifaceted, extensive oeuvre. Chaos and Madness is the first volume offering a critical approach to Marlowe’s riveting historical novels. Their relevance in the field of literary studies derives from their well-wrought structure and captivating prose as well as from their portrayal of remote European history – a distinctive feature that makes Marlowe a unique figure in the North American trend of historiographic metafiction. Chaos and Madness provides a comprehensive narratological and ideological analysis of three novels in which Marlowe deals with Spanish history. Preceded by an in-depth if reader-friendly theoretical chapter that traces the evolution of the historical novel as a genre, Calvo-Pascual’s meticulous investigation into Marlowe’s fiction proves compelling for anyone interested in contemporary American fiction, in Spanish history, or in the interaction of metafiction and the scientific discourse of chaos theory.Trade ReviewChaos and Madness has been awarded the Javier Coy Biennial Research Awards 2013 for best monograph. The goal of these awards is to promote high-quality scholarship in the field of American Studies, and to celebrate the originality and excellence of research carried out within SAAS. "Chaos and Madness is theoretically engaged. The author has an admirable ability to explain abstruse concepts in simple terms. Her analysis is sophisticated, yet clear and fluently written. As a rule, Calvo-Pascual works with precise definitions, leading readers interested in the complex world of Stephen Marlowe by the hand." – in: Miscelánea: a Journal of English and American Studies 44 (2011), pp. 151-156Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction History and the Novel: An Overview Mastering the Art: The Historical Novel and Local Color Between Magic and Madness: A Portrait of Spain and Its Neuroses Postmodern Critique and the Hand of the Historian Chaos, Complexity and Interpretation Beyond Reference: Historiographic Metafiction Impinged by Science Fiction The Novel Never Ends: On Alternative Worlds, Jewish Connections and Infinite Regress Concluding Remarks Appendix I Appendix II Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisShift Linguals traces a history of the cut-up method, the experimental writing practice discovered by Brion Gysin and made famous by Beat author William S. Burroughs. From the groundbreaking works of Dada and Surrealism that paved the way for Burroughs’ breakthrough, through the countercultural explosion of the 1960s, Shift Linguals explores the evolution of the cut-ups within the theoretical frameworks of postmodernism and the avant-garde to arrive at the present and the digital age. Some 50 years on from the first ‘discovery’ of the cut-ups in 1959, it is only now that we are truly able to observe the method’s impact, not only on literature, but on music and culture in a broader sense. The result of over nine years of research, this study represents the first sustained and detailed analysis of the cut-ups as a narrative form. With explorations of the works of Burroughs, Gysin, Kathy Acker, and John Giorno, it also contains the first critical writing on the works of Claude Pélieu and Carl Weissner in English, as well as the first in-depth discussion of the writing of Stewart Home to date.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction. Before Burroughs: The Prehistory of the Cut-Ups The Origin and Theory of the Cut-Ups Early Successors: Pélieu, Giorno, Weissner Inter-Section. The Mutations of Burroughs: Revising the Cut-Up Technique Kathy Acker: Plagiarism and Adaptation – From Cut-Up to Cut-and-Paste Stewart Home: Pulp, Parody, Repetition and the Cut-Up Renaissance Further Mutations: The Cut-Ups in the New Millennium Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisVassilis Alexakis: Exorciser l’exil est le premier ouvrage critique consacré à l’œuvre littéraire de l’auteur grec d’expression française Vassilis Alexakis, lauréat du prix Médicis en 1995 et du Grand prix du roman de l’Académie française en 2007. Les schémas de dépossessions culturelles, de quêtes linguistiques, de crises identitaires et de déplacements géographiques propres aux écrits d’Alexakis y sont analysés selon trois axes (autofictionnel, linguistique et spatial) dans les œuvres publiées entre 1974 et 2007 afin de révéler une esthétique du déplacement qui permet à l’auteur de se libérer progressivement de la problématique de l’exil. Cette étude critique s’adresse particulièrement à ceux qui s’intéressent aux écrits contemporains en langue française, aux études littéraires francophones, au bilinguisme littéraire ou à l’autotraduction. L’ouvrage comporte un entretien exclusif avec l’auteur effectué en janvier 2010 à Athènes.Table of ContentsRemerciements Note sur les références Introduction L’Auteur et ses doubles : écriture de soi entre fiction et autobiographie Flou autobiographique Déplacer le vécu : correspondances autofictionnelles Tentative de définition d’une œuvre en miroir Déplacer pour exorciser Esthétique personnelle de l’écriture du moi Langue française, langue grecque : choix, identité et création Mise au point : bilinguisme littéraire et autotraduction Parcours linguistique et itinéraire identitaire alexakien Talgo : combler le manque linguistique La Langue maternelle : sur les traces de la langue grecque Les Mots étrangers : l’appel d’un troisième espace linguistique Résonances et ramifications du déplacement linguistique Lieux et espaces : pérégrinations alexakiennes Une écriture spatiale Problématique d’une instabilité géographique Deux pôles antagonistes : Paris et Athènes Diversification des lieux : s’inscrire dans l’ailleurs De Paris-Athènes à Athènes sans Paris : une œuvre qui se « grécise » Des retours imaginaires pour un retour symbolique « Il faut utiliser l’imagination de la vie » : Entretien avec Vassilis Alexakis Conclusion Bibliographie

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Book SynopsisThis volume is the first book of criticism to provide a systematic analysis of a corpus of emblematic contemporary British fictions from the combined perspective of trauma theory and ethics. Although the fictional work of writers such as Graham Swift has already been approached from this perspective, none of the individual works or authors under analysis in the twelve essays collected in this volume has been given such a systematic and in-depth scrutiny to date. This study, which is addressed to academics and university students of British literature and culture, focuses on the literary representation of trauma in key works by Martin Amis, J. G. Ballard, Pat Barker, John Boyne, Angela Carter, Eva Figes, Alan Hollinghurst, Delia Jarrett-Macauley, A.L. Kennedy, Ian McEwan, Michael Moorcock, Fay Weldon and Jeanette Winterson, within the context of the “ethical turn” in the related fields of literary theory and moral philosophy that has influenced literary criticism over the last three decades, with a special focus on the ethics of alterity, the ethics of truths, and deconstructive ethics.Table of ContentsJean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega: Introduction Lena Steveker: Reading Trauma in Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy Silvia Pellicer-Ortín: The Ethical Clock of Trauma in Eva Figes’ Winter Journey Charley Baker: “Nobody’s Meat”: Revisiting Rape and Sexual Trauma through Angela Carter Jakob Winnberg: “A New Algebra”: The Poetics and Ethics of Trauma in J.G. Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition Jean-Michel Ganteau: Trauma as the Negation of Autonomy: Michael Moorcock’s Mother London María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro: Where Madness Lies: Holocaust Representation and the Ethics of Form in Martin Amis’ Time’s Arrow Gerd Bayer: World War II Fiction and the Ethics of Trauma José M. Yebra: “A Terrible Beauty”: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Trauma of Gayness in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty Georges Letissier: “The Eternal Loop of Self-Torture”: Ethics and Trauma in Ian McEwan’s Atonement Angela Locatelli: Conjunctures of Uneasiness: Trauma in Fay Weldon’s The Heart of the Country and in Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach Anne Whitehead: Representing the Child Soldier: Trauma, Postcolonialism and Ethics in Delia Jarrett-Macauley’s Moses, Citizen and Me Susana Onega: The Trauma Paradigm and the Ethics of Affect in Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWise Blood: A Re-Consideration is a collection of nineteen new essays on Flannery O’Connor’s 1952 novel about the spiritual journey of a young man raised in a fundamentalist Christian family. Following the pattern of previous books in the Dialogue series, it offers analyses by established and emerging scholars in North America. The volume comprises five sections: Religious and Philosophical Thought; Comedy, Humor, and Animality in Wise Blood; Influences on Wise Blood; Structural Issues; and Gender, Culture, and Genre. An intensely religious novel by a Catholic author, Wise Blood continues to draw keen attention from literary scholars, theologians, preachers, and lay readers. This volume encompasses many new critical perspectives that will encourage greater insights, deeper understandings, and further investigations of the complexities of O’Connor’s modern classic set in the Deep South.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations for O’Connor’s Works John J. Han: Introduction Section I: Religious and Philosophical Thought Debra L. Cumberland: Flannery O’Connor and the Question of the Christian Novel Jonathan D. Fitzgerald: This Protestant World: Flannery O’Connor’s Portrayal of the Modern Protestant South in Wise Blood Susan Amper: “I believe, I believe”: The Miracle of Christ in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood Andrew Peter Atkinson: Virgil If Punched in the Gut: A Defense of Jansenist Interpretations of Wise Blood Section II: Comedy, Humor, and Animality in Wise Blood Andrew B. Leiter: Comedy and the Anti-existential in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood Aaron Hillyer: Becoming Human, Becoming Animal: The Anthropological Machine at Work in Wise Blood Paul Benedict Grant: O’Connor’s Comic Vision: Faith and Humor in Wise Blood Section III: Influences on Wise Blood Jordan Cofer: Flannery & Franz: Tracing the Kafkaesque Influences on O’Connor’s Wise Blood John J. Han: A Roman Catholic Response to Nihilism and Protestantism: Wise Blood as an Anti-Kafkaesque Novel Henry T. Edmondson III: Flannery O’Connor and Gerard Manley Hopkins on the Virtues of Blindness and Silence Section IV: Structural Issues W. A. Sessions: The Ambiguity of Vocation: Or, What Flannery Meant by “Malgré Lui” Lewis MacLeod: “Was You Going Anywheres?”: Wandering Between the Modern and Postmodern in Wise Blood Lylas Dayton Rommel: The Dostoevskian Structure of Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood Section V: Gender, Culture, and Genre Marshall Bruce Gentry: Wise Women, Wise Blood Janine Tobeck: No Redeeming Value: The Violence of/toward Realism in Wise Blood Teresa Clark Caruso: Whores and Heathens: Misogynistic Representations in Wise Blood Stacey Peebles: He’s Huntin’ Something: Hazel Motes as Ex-Soldier Sonya Freeman Loftis: Death, Horror, and Darkness: O’Connor’s Gothic Novel on Screen Mark Schiebe: Car Trouble: Hazel Motes and the Fifties Counterculture Abstracts of Arguments About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisGiven the increasing popularity of literary festivals, open mics, and poetry slams, one could justifiably claim that the English-speaking world is currently experiencing a ‘Live Poetry’ boom. Yet, despite this raised awareness for the aesthetic and social potential of performed poetry, academia has barely responded, failing in the process to update and adapt its concept of poetry to meet these recent developments. Bridging this critical gap, this volume provides for the first time a full methodological ‘toolkit’ for the analysis of live poetry by drawing together approaches from diverse disciplines concerned with speech and forms of cultural performance. Most notably, these include literary studies, paralinguistics, musicology, kinesics, theatre and performance studies, and folklore studies. This innovative methodology is demonstrated through sample analyses based on a mixed corpus of audio and video recordings of poetry performances, as well as on personal interviews with practitioners of live poetry. Of value to the scholar and poetry enthusiast alike, this volume presents an indispensable guide for anyone interested in understanding and analysing poetry’s evolution through its current ‘spoken word’ renaissance.Trade ReviewSee also Live Poetry "Novak provides the motivation and means for fresh engagement not only with a neglected ‘live literature scene’, but also with the vocal practices of a far wider range of poets." – Samuel Rogers, Bangor, in: Modern Language Review 109.3 (2014), pp. 794-5 "…a detailed and precise methodology to understanding and interpreting live poetry … The clarity and structure of Novak’s dissertation are impressive given the small body of previous research and the interdisciplinarity of the subject matter. This systematic approach is unprecedented in the field of literary studies. As such, it is an overdue contribution to literary research in general and to the field of Spoken Word and Live Literature in particular." – Minu Hedayati-Aliabadi, in: Anglia 131 (2013) "This is an important intervention in an emerging critical field. It offers a refreshing perspective on a neglected aspect of poetry and makes one reflect on page-focused models of poetry criticism." – David Kennedy, in: stridemagazine.co.uk (August 2012) "In summary, Julia Novak correctly identifies a lack of analysis - of understanding – of this phenomenon, and her book goes some considerable way towards bridging the gap, and helping live poetry towards a coming of age. Anyone interested in the future of live poetry should read this book." – in: writeoutloud.net (13th May 2012)Table of ContentsIntroduction Theorising Live Poetry Key Challenges for the Scholar of Live Poetry Towards a Definition of Live Poetry Analysing Live Poetry Comparing the Written Poem and the Performed Poem Audiotext Body Communication Contextualising the Performance Jackie Hagan’s “Coffee or Tea?”: A Sample Analysis Checklist for the Analysis of Live Poetry Performances Conclusion Bibliography Table of Figures Index

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Book SynopsisOpting Out explores the theme of deviance as a form of protest in famous cult novels that have left an indelible mark on contemporary American culture – from Jack Kerouac's On the Road to Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club. Adopting a generational lens, it centers on the deviant heroes and literary spokesmen of two major cohorts: the Baby Boomers and Generation X. Here for the first time the cult texts that defined these generations are submitted to a critical analysis that allows them to enter into a dialogue – or rather a heated debate – with each other. This opens new perspectives on the generation gap in America since 1945, offering a dynamic look at the role of youth as agents of social change and cultural innovation. The volume is of interest to students and researchers in contemporary American literature and culture, as well as to fans of cult fiction in general. The interdisciplinary approach to the themes of generational conflict and deviant behaviour also makes a significant contribution to the fields of sociology, contemporary history and cultural studies.Trade Review“[…] it is the ‘heated debate’ (6) arising from the X-ers’ rejection of the boomer ethos that she seeks to explore.[…] Opting Out remains an informed analysis of how cult fiction has helped forge the US’s two major postwar generations.” – Edward Jackson, in Journal of American Studies 48 (2014)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Opting Out as a Modern Paradigm: Generations, Deviance and Cult Fiction Generational Identity: Origins, Formation and Impact Deviance: Definitions, Reactions and Implications Cult Fiction: Writing from the Margins The Generational Constellation in Post-War America: A Brief Overview Deviance in Cult Fiction of the 1950s and 1960s The Road Out: Deviance in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road An Unlocked Window: Deviance in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest “Edge City”: Deviance in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Deviance in Cult Fiction of the 1980s and 1990s “Disappear Here”: Deviance in Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero “The Lunar Side of the Fence”: Deviance in Douglas Coupland’s Generation X “Hitting Bottom”: Deviance in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club Conclusion: Opting Out and America’s Social Imaginary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis exciting new volume presents recent research by internationally recognised Joyce scholars from Europe and North America. Entitled Joycean Unions: Post-Millennial Essays from East to West, it pays particular attention to contemporary Eastern and Western European perspectives on the immensely influential work of the Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941). The essays collected in this volume uncover various European sources of inspiration for Joyce’s early aesthetic theories, for the “Sirens”, “Cyclops”, “Circe” and “Eumaeus” episodes of his modernist masterwork Ulysses (1922) and for his last tour de force Finnegans Wake (1939). They present inspiring new ways of reading Joyce’s work, re-investigate the fascinating phenomenon of literary “error”, and review aspects of Joyce’s varied afterlife in Ireland and Eastern Europe. The book will be of interest to scholars, students and the general audience interested in English literature, Modernism, European Studies, Irish Studies and of course the works of James Joyce.Trade Review“I was particularly keen to read this collection since much of the material dates from a period before I began to work on Joyce. The excellent book functions well as a record (or for others, a reminder) of these past discussions, while each chapter has, if necessary, been updated to address contemporary critical issues. The work has a lot to offer the reader of Joyce and, in particular, the reader of Ulysses, and I strongly recommend it.” - Katherine Ebury, University of Sheffield, in: James Joyce Quarterly 50.3 (2013), pp. 853-856Table of ContentsBibliographical Note R. Brandon Kershner: Introduction: Joycean Unions Tekla Mecsnóber: James Joyce and “Eastern Europe”: An Introduction Marianna Gula: “Reading the Book of Himself”: James Joyce on Mihály Munkácsy’s Painting “Ecco Homo” John McCourt: Joyce, il Bel Paese and the Italian Language Barry McCrea: Privatising Ulysses: Joyce before, during and after the “Celtic Tiger” Jason King: “Memory of these Migrations”: Joyce, Interculturalism, and the Reception of Ulysses in the Irish Immigration Debate Jane Lewty: SoundingS in “Proteus” Vicki Mahaffey: Bloom and the Ba: Voyeurism and Elision in “Nausicaa” Derek Attridge: Pararealism in “Circe” Benoît Tadié: “A Diabolic Rictus of Black Luminosity”: Exploring the Lipoti Virag-Dracula Connection Régis Salado: “The Injection Mark”: Inoculation in the Joycean Text André Topia: Of Warts and Women: The Female Anomaly in “Circe” Stephen Tifft: The Love-Life of Phonemes Susan Sutliff Brown: The Mystery of the Fuga per Canonem Solved Patrick A. McCarthy: Ulysses: Book of Many Errors Tim Conley: Misquoting Joyce Andrew Gibson: Joyce through the Fowlers: “Eumaeus”, The King’s English and Modern English Usage Contributors

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Book SynopsisA truly cosmopolitan Irish writer, George Moore (1852-1933) was a fascinating figure of the fin de siècle, moving between countries, crossing genre and medium boundaries, forever exploring and promulgating aesthetic trends and artistic developments: Naturalism in the novel and the theatre, Impressionism in painting, Decadence and the avant-garde, Literary Wagnerism, the Irish Literary Revival, New Woman culture. This volume on border-crossings offers a variety of critical perspectives to approach Moore’s multifaceted oeuvre and personality. The essays by contributors from various national backgrounds and from a wide range of disciplines establish original points of contact between literary creation, art history, Wagnerian opera, gender studies, sociology, and altogether reposition Moore as a major representative of European turn-of-the-century culture.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Christine Huguet and Fabienne Dabrigeon-Garcier: Introduction Exploring Artistic Borders Christine Huguet: The Prima Donna and the Convent: Border Crossings in Evelyn Innes and Sister Teresa Stoddard Martin: George Moore and Literary Wagnerism: A Revisitation Fabienne Gaspari: Painting and Writing in Moore’s Confessions of a Young Man, Lewis Seymour and Some Women, and A Drama in Muslin Isabelle Enaud-Lechien: Moore and Whistler: Writer and Painter at Loggerheads Marie-Claire Hamard: Max the Caricaturist and Moore: Crossing the Boundaries of Friendship Authorship and Authority Adrian Frazier: George Moore and Collaborative Authorship Eamonn R. Cantwell: Crossing Borders: Moore and Yeats in the Theatre Alain Labau: George Moore: A Man of Letters on the Margins of Reality Michel Brunet: “Mais qui voudrait me lire en français?”: Reading George Moore’s Letters to Edouard Dujardin Grafts and Transplants Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn: The Quest for Female Selfhood in Evelyn Innes and Sister Teresa: From Wagnerian Künstlerroman to Freudian Family Romance Mary Pierse: “No More than a Sketch” Konstantin Doulamis: Ancient Greece and the Art of Storytelling in George Moore’s Aphrodite in Aulis Spaces and the Subject Elizabeth Grubgeld: Framing the Body: George Moore’s “Albert Nobbs” and the Disappearing Realist Subject Nathalie Saudo-Welby: “The Soul with a False Bottom” and “The Deceitful Character”: Analysing the Servant in the Goncourts’ Germinie Lacerteux and George Moore’s Esther Waters Michele Russo: Spatial Metaphors and Liminal Elements in Esther Waters Fabienne Dabrigeon-Garcier: “A Letter Came into His Mind”: Fictional Correspondence in The Lake Select Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the literary construction of personal identity through autobiographical narratives by three significant writers analysed together for the first time: the Scottish Willa Muir (1890-1970), the Canadian Margaret Laurence (1926-1987), and the New Zealander Janet Frame (1924-2004). These apparently dissimilar authors suffered not only geographical, but also political marginality: they were women from the working-class or struggling middle-class, striving to be considered as professional writers, and emerging from countries that might be felt to be under the shadows of economic and political world powers such as England and the United States. During their lifetimes, they exerted themselves to overcome prejudices about class, gender and ethnicity. They experienced war and the post-war era, and lived through most of the twentieth century, being accurate witnesses and critics of their times. As it discusses major writers who are iconic for the development of the literatures of their respective countries, this book also attracts readers who are interested in learning more about the lives of these remarkable women, the way their socio-historical and geographical circumstances affected their writing and how they expressed such concerns in their autobiographies and other fictional and non-fictional works, besides considering them in relation to contemporary women writers —and autobiographers— who underwent similar experiences.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Willa Muir Brief Chronology The Writer and the Translator The Writer as Mother Belonging to the Universe Margaret Laurence Brief Chronology Motherhood as Gift and Trap The Dynamic Concept of Place The Craft of the Writer: Vulnerability and Power Janet Frame Brief Chronology A Place for the Self The Writer’s Vocation In Search of Loneliness Conclusion Appendixes Willa Muir’s Translations Interview with Professor Clara Thomas Archives Consulted Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary study of the Impressionist/early Modernist works of Conrad and Ford, this book aims to show how the represented temporalities (whether to do with past, present, future experience within and without the novels, or logical/structural relations of ‘before’ and ‘after’) are at the core of the won effects of both authors’ oeuvres. Looking at such well-known works as Nostromo, The Good Soldier, The Fifth Queen, Parade’s End, the study makes use of philosophy (historical and contemporary), theology, psychoanalysis, and other sources, to re-describe, unlock and display the fertile ways in which time and historical experience are both manumitted within the tales analysed, and, recursively, within their reading experience. Ultimately, the two senses of ‘making you see’, from Conrad’s iconic Preface, are used as gambits to understand the ways in which these novels are metaphysically vibrant, symbolically hopeful- as against the more common interpretation of metaphysical dissolution and (over-determined) failure.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Prologue: A Wilderness to Himself Introduction: Love Beyond the Ends Chapter one: Temporal Experience in Conrad’s Nostromo Chapter two: Superimposed Pasts in Ford’s Fifth Queen Chapter three: The Metaphorization of “Dowell” Chapter four: Ford’s Parade’s End: A Surgeon on Time Conclusion: The Salutary Weight of Objectivity Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMany of the world’s greatest novels have been translated into Persian. Though Iranian novelists are almost completely unknown in the outside world. It is still classical literature that represents Iran. What delays the globalization of Persian novels? As a response, the present study deals with questions about the novel in the Persian literary system, the literary discourse in the Iranian cultural context and modern Persian literature on the global scene.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Epistemology, Ideology and Fictional Forms Chapter Two: Examples and Extensions Chapter Three: Literary Authenticity Chapter Four: Critical Adequation Chapter Five: Literary Canonization Chapter Six: The Serious Century and Hedayat’s Grim Laughter Chapter Seven: The History of the Novel in Persian Chapter Eight: The Other Serious Century: Pirzad’s Social World Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNarrative Innovation in 9/11 Fiction explores fiction that experiments in innovative ways with formal strategies so as to engage with the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers and their repercussion. This study demonstrates how certain novels create narratives about the 9/11 attacks that refuse to shy away from exploring and representing their difficult and problematic aspects and, in fact, insist on doing so as the only means of coming to terms with the events in all their cultural and historical specificity. As such, these texts implicitly advocate a notion of literature as a dynamic negotiation of the relationship between aesthetics, ethics, politics, culture, and history. Indeed, they assert and reassert the viability of literature as a mode of critical inquiry that can engage and contribute to the socio-political debates of its time and to the construction of narratives about significant historical and cultural events.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Narrative Innovation in 9/11 Fiction Chapter 1: Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World Chapter 2: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Chapter 3: Jess Walter’s The Zero Chapter 4: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man Chapter 5: Ian McEwan’s Saturday Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOne can find it in the classics of experimental literature such as Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy or the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges, but also in the horror and fantasy fiction of Stephen King, in Mel Brooks’s spoof films and Grant Morrison’s superhero comics. The talk is of metalepsis, the transgression of narrative levels. While this device was long perceived as a narratological oddity reserved for avant-garde texts, it has recently emerged as a phenomenon of much wider bearing that exists in numerous media and in popular as well as high culture. When Storyworlds Collide wishes to do justice to this situation and offers both a refined model for the analysis of metalepsis across media and a detailed investigation of the uses and functions of metalepsis in popular culture, thus providing a valuable addition to the burgeoning field of post-classical and transmedial narrative theory. Starting from a thorough reevaluation of the concept of metalepsis as it is discussed both in classical narratology and more recent endeavours, this book puts forth a deceptively simple yet flexible definition and typology of this device, centred on the violation of the border separating the inside and outside of a storyworld and designed to be transmedially applicable. In a second step, this model is put to the test through an analysis of a wide range of metaleptic narratives drawn from popular fiction, film, and comics. When Storyworlds Collide takes popular culture seriously, employing it neither to merely exemplify theory nor to demonstrate that it is ultimately a knockoff of high culture. Rather, it shows that metalepsis possesses a unique dynamics in popular storytelling and has become an essential device for pop-cultural self-reflection – while still retaining an immense potential to create amusing and entertaining narratives. This book will be relevant to students and scholars from a wide variety of fields: narrative theory, intermediality and media studies, popular culture as well as literary, film and comics studies.Trade Review“One of the greatest merits of this book is that it provides readers with a convincing and viable definition of metalepsis. Based on a concise review of the dominant theories of metalepsis, starting with Gérard Genette’s original description of the phenomenon, and drawing on concepts from possible worlds theory, in particular Marie-Laure Ryan and Lubomír Doležel, Thoss defines metalepsis as the paradoxical transgression of the line separating the inside from the outside of a storyworld. Unlike Genette, who conceptualizes metalepsis as a hierarchical violation. […] As a whole, the book is tightly argued, well-written and thus a pleasure to read. Moreover, Thoss’s threefold typology of metaleptical transgressions is a more than useful addition to the existing literature and theory on metalepsis.” - Keyvan Sarkhosh, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 41.2 (2016), pp. 93-97Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Theory 2. Fiction 3. Film 4. Comics Conclusion References

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Book SynopsisTwin brothers Sudhir and Sunil Kapoor's latest book, Kite in a Hurricane, features seven thrilling stories exploring family dynamics and human lives. From dream film production to escaping harems, the tales promise suspense and intrigue, showcasing the Kapoor brothers' storytelling prowess.

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Book SynopsisAlya thrives in Bollywood but feels lonely, Eisha trapped in a wealthy marriage, Reena struggles with appearance and marriage pressure, Malini seeks self-discovery. "Unchain My Heart" follows four Indian women navigating career, marriage, relationships, and motherhood in a competitive world.

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Book SynopsisByomkesh Bakshi, the famous Indian detective, solves seven thrilling mysteries with his partner Ajit in this collection. Translated superbly, the stories are disturbing, original, and suspenseful, showcasing Byomkesh's deduction skills. Each adventure is clever and intriguing, perfect for fans of classic crime fiction.

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Book SynopsisA collection of stories and essays by Ruskin Bond explores the various forms of love through moments of tenderness and warmth between friends, families, lovers, and strangers, showcasing the beauty and significance of love in everyday life.

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Book SynopsisA little girl finds joy and solace in climbing trees, playing with nature's creatures, and resting under their protective branches. Ruskin Bond's collection celebrates the beauty and importance of trees in our lives, offering a glimpse into the magical world of nature.

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