Author: Andrea Strolz
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Andrea Strolz
Publisher: ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
ISBN: 3838256433
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Margaret Atwood's novels are photographs of her characters' lives: while words only ever describe her protagonists’ blurred visions of their pasts, their 'true' stories are told in subtexts which run parallel or even contrary to the main story line and which depict the unseen, the buried, the 'untrue'. Replete with intertextual references, her fiction illuminates that and why "[w]hat isn’t there has a presence, like the absence of light" (The Blind Assassin). She plays with our conventional modes of perception to make us aware of the way we frame reality in our minds. Andrea Strolz discusses in her book the interrelation between metafictional and intertextual features in two of Atwood's novels that share many similarities, even though written in different decades. She examines how Atwood weaves intertextual references into her fiction, how she facilitates a reader's recognition of the intertexts, and she shows that Atwood's narrator-protagonists also reflect on our age as one of intertextuality.

Author: Andrea Strolz
Publisher: Ibidem Press
ISBN: 9783898216432
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Margaret Atwood's novels are photographs of her characters' lives: while words only ever describe her protagonists' blurred visions of their pasts, their 'true' stories are told in subtexts which run parallel or even contrary to the main story line and which depict the unseen, the buried, the 'untrue'. Replete with intertextual references, her fiction illuminates that and why "[w]hat isn't there has a presence, like the absence of light" (The Blind Assassin). She plays with our conventional modes of perception to make us aware of the way we frame reality in our minds. Andrea Strolz discusses in her book the interrelation between metafictional and intertextual features in two of Atwood's novels that share many similarities, even though written in different decades. She examines how Atwood weaves intertextual references into her fiction, how she facilitates a reader's recognition of the intertexts, and she shows that Atwood's narrator-protagonists also reflect on our age as one of intertextuality.

Author: Marta Cerezo Moreno
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839434394
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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This collection consists of eight essays that examine the way narratives determine our understanding of old age and condition how the experience is lived. Contributors to this volume have based their analysis on the concept of »narrative identity« developed by Paul Ricoeur, built upon the idea that fiction makes life, and on his definition of »trace« as the mark of time. By investigating the traces of aging imprinted in a series of literary and filmic works they dismantle the narrative of old age as decline and foreclosure to assemble one of transformation and growth.

Author: Richard van Leeuwen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900436269X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 842

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In The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction, Richard van Leeuwen challenges conventional perceptions of the development of 20th-century prose by arguing that Thousand and One Nights, as an intertextual model, has been a crucial influence on authors who have contributed to shaping the main literary currents in 20th-century world literature, inspiring new forms and concepts of literature and texts.

Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9042027657
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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The present volume contains general essays on: the relevance of ‘Commonwealth’ literature; the treatment of Dalits in literature and culture; the teaching of African literature in the UK; ‘sharing places’ and Drum magazine in South Africa; black British book covers as primers for cultural contact; Christianity, imperialism, and conversion; Orang Pendek and Papuans in colonial Indonesia; Carnival and drama in the anglophone Caribbean; issues of choice between the Maltese language and Its Others; and patterns of interaction between married couples in Malta. As well as these, there are essays providing close readings of works by the following authors: Chinua Achebe, André Aciman, Diran Adebayo, Monica Ali, Edward Atiyah, Margaret Atwood, Murray Bail, Peter Carey, Amit Chaudhuri, Austin Clarke, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Antjie Krog, Hanif Kureishi, Naguib Mahfouz, David Malouf, V.S. Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, Tayeb Salih, Zadie Smith, Ahdaf Soueif, Yvonne Vera. Contributors: Jogamaya Bayer, Katrin Berndt, Sabrina Brancato, Monica Bungaro, Judith Lütge Coulli, Robert Cribb, Natasha Distiller, Evelyne Hanquart–Turner, Marie Herbillon, Tuomas Huttunen, Gen’ichiro Itakura, Jacqueline Jondot, Karen King–Aribisala, Ursula Kluwick, Dorothy Lane, Ben Lebdai, Lourdes López–Ropero, Amin Malak, Daniel Massa, Concepción Mengibar–Rico, Susanne Reichl, Brigitte Scheer–Schaezler, Lydia Sciriha, Jamie S. Scott, Andrea Strolz, Peter O. Stummer, Cynthia vanden Driesen, Clare Thake Vassallo.

Author: 丁林棚著
Publisher: BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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本书通过对自我的剖析，揭示了阿特伍德关于人的民族性、政治性、社会性和生物性深层的思索，阐发这种人文和社会关怀对文学写作的重要意义。书中主要围绕加拿大多元文化主义思想、自我与他者的精神分析以及人与动物的边界做出了超前的探索。

Author: Klaus-Dieter Ertler
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien in den deutschsprachigen Ländern (GKS: Association for Canadian Studies in the German speaking countries) this collection offers an overview of the state-of-the-arts in various disciplines in Canadian Studies, such as linguistics, musicology and media studies, as well as literature and history. It opens multiple perspectives and paths for the future of our discipline. À l'occasion du 30e anniversaire de la Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien in den deutschsprachigen Ländern (GKS ; Association d'Études canadiennes dans les pays de langue allemande), nous offrons un tour d'horizon de l'état de la recherche dans les différentes disciplines en Études canadiennes, telles que la linguistique, la musicologie, les études sur les médias et les genres ainsi que sur la littérature et l'histoire. Ce volume offre un grand nombre de pistes et de perspectives pour l'avenir de notre discipline.

Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 9781784874117
Category : Canadian essays
Languages : en
Pages : 133

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Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced with, of men and women in prisons literal and metaphorical, is frightening, but it is also a call to arms to speak and to act to preserve our freedom while we still can. And in that, there is hope. Selected from The Handmaid's Tale and Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human