Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and FilmSusana Onega Jaén, Christian Gutleben Rodopi, 2004 - 261 páginas Contemporary works of art that remodel the canon not only create complex, hybrid and plural products but also alter our perceptions and understanding of their source texts. This is the dual process, referred to in this volume as "refraction", that the essays collected here set out to discuss and analyse by focusing on the dialectic rapport between postmodernism and the canon. What is sought in many of the essays is a redefinition of postmodernist art and a re-examination of the canon in the light of contemporary epistemology. Given this dual process, this volume will be of value both to everyone interested in contemporary art--particularly fiction, drama and film--and also to readers whose aim it is to promote a better appreciation of canonical British literature. |
Índice
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Rewriting the Canon in Contemporary 5368 | 53 |
Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction 6982 | 69 |
Fight Club as a Refraction of 8394 | 83 |
Film Heroines of the Nineties 95110 | 95 |
Dickens and PostVictorian Fiction 111128 | 111 |
Charles Pallisers 129148 | 129 |
Refracting the Past in Praise of the Dead Poets in 149164 | 149 |
Jeanette Winterson and the Ethics of 165185 | 165 |
Caryl Phillips Subversive 187205 | 187 |
Strategies of Writing Back in 207229 | 207 |
To Hamlet and back with Humble Boy by Charlotte 231245 | 231 |
Notes on Contributors 247250 | 247 |
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A. S. Byatt Aboulela Ackroyd African Alasdair Gray Austen bastard Bleak House Book British Cambridge canonical romance canonical text Caryl Phillips century characters Charlotte Jones Clueless comedy contemporary Scottish critics cultural Dickens Dickensian echoes Emma essays example Faber female feminist fiction Fight Club film Fire of London Frankenstein Gil-Martin Gray's Hamlet Higher Ground Hogg Hogg's Humble Boy hypotext identity intertextual Islam Jane Jekyll and Hyde Justified Sinner Leila Aboulela literary Little Dorrit metaphor Midnight's Children modern mother Muslim narrative narrator Nature of Blood Ophelia original Othello Oxford Palliser parody Penguin play post-colonial Post-Victorian postmodern PowerBook present protagonist Quincunx reader reading References refraction representation rewriting Rushdie Rushdie's Saleem Sammar scene Scottish literature sense sexual Shakespeare Shandy's Sterne Sterne's story theory things tradition Tristram Shandy Tyler University Press Venetian Venice Victorian novel Walter Winterson's woman women words writing Yorick York Zadie Smith
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