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17 produkter
From Text to Hypertext
Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media
Av Silvio Gaggi
Häftad, 1998
384 kr
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It is a tenet of postmodern writing that the subject-the self-is unstable, fragmented, and decentered. One useful way to examine this principle is to look at how the subject has been treated in various media in the premodern, modern, and postmodern eras. Silvio Gaggi pursues this strategy in From …
Dreams of Fiery Stars
The Transformations of Native American Fiction
E-bok, 2010
488 kr
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999Since the 1968 publication of N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, a new generation of Native American storytellers has chosen writing over oral traditions. While their works have found an audience by observing many of the …
Beyond the Red Notebook
Essays on Paul Auster
E-bok, 2011
488 kr
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The novels of Paul Auster-finely wrought, self-reflexive, filled with doublings, coincidences, and mysteries-have captured the imagination of readers and the admiration of many critics of contemporary literature. In Beyond the Red Notebook, the first book devoted to the works of Auster, Dennis …
Modern/Postmodern
A Study in Twentieth-Century Arts and Ideas
Av Silvio Gaggi
Häftad, 1991
317 kr
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Silvio Gaggi's survey of the vast terrain of twentieth century arts and ideas is unique not only for its scope but also for the clarity and cohesiveness it brings to wide-ranging, seemingly disparate works. By identifying underlying epistemological, aesthetic, and ethical issues. Gaggi draws …
Beyond the Red Notebook
Essays on Paul Auster
Häftad, 1995
384 kr
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The novels of Paul Auster-finely wrought, self-reflexive, filled with doublings, coincidences, and mysteries-have captured the imagination of readers and the admiration of many critics of contemporary literature. In Beyond the Red Notebook, the first book devoted to the works of Auster, Dennis …
Literary Bent
In Search of High Art in Contemporary American Writing
Häftad, 1997
384 kr
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What is "literature in these postmodern, postcanonical times? And if a small number of works being written today are "literary," what distinguishes them from those many others that are not? The store managers who shelve books in separate "literature" and "fiction" sections clearly have something in …
Dreams of Fiery Stars
The Transformations of Native American Fiction
Häftad, 1999
537 kr
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999 Since the 1968 publication of N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, a new generation of Native American storytellers has chosen writing over oral traditions. While their works have found an audience by observing many of the …
Beyond Suspicion
New American Fiction Since 196
Inbunden, 1996
988 kr
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996
Wrestling Angels Into Song
The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson
Inbunden, 1995
923 kr
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Herman Beavers offers a richly nuanced study of Ernes J. Gaines, James Alan McPherson, and Ralph Ellison as writers who have found ways to invest circumstances that might otherwise be seen as sites of squalor or despair with a sense of cultural vitality. He examines the Ellisonian themes and motifs …
Theoretical Fables
The Pedagogical Dream in Contemporary Latin American Literature
Inbunden, 1993
792 kr
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Alicia Borinsky argues that the contemporary Latin American novel does not just ingeniously dismantle the referential claims of the more traditional novel; it offers a postmodern version of the lessons taught by fiction.Latin American fiction, perhaps the most inventive literature of recent …
American Magic and Dread
Don DeLillo's Dialogue with Culture
Av Mark Osteen
Inbunden, 2000
988 kr
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Don DeLillo once remarked to an interviewer that his intention is to use "the whole picture, the whole culture," of America. Since the publication of his first novel Americana in 1971, DeLillo has explored modern American culture through a series of acclaimed novels, including White Noise (1985; …
Against Amnesia
Contemporary Women Writers and the Crises of Historical Memory
Inbunden, 2001
1053 kr
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In Against Amnesia, Nancy J. Peterson addresses the ongoing postmodernist debate over the possibility and relevance of documentary and official histories. Drawing on Adrienne Rich's claim that women's literature and multicultural literature vigorously resist the amnesia and nostalgia that …
Modern/Postmodern
A Study in Twentieth-Century Arts and Ideas
Av Silvio Gaggi
Inbunden, 1989
400 kr
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Silvio Gaggi's survey of the vast terrain of twentieth century arts and ideas is unique not only for its scope but also for the clarity and cohesiveness it brings to wide-ranging, seemingly disparate works. By identifying underlying epistemological, aesthetic, and ethical issues. Gaggi draws …
Wrestling Angels Into Song
The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson
E-bok, 2015
1100 kr
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Herman Beavers offers a richly nuanced study of Ernes J. Gaines, James Alan McPherson, and Ralph Ellison as writers who have found ways to invest circumstances that might otherwise be seen as sites of squalor or despair with a sense of cultural vitality. He examines the Ellisonian themes and motifs …
Theoretical Fables
The Pedagogical Dream in Contemporary Latin American Literature
E-bok, 2015
880 kr
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Alicia Borinsky argues that the contemporary Latin American novel does not just ingeniously dismantle the referential claims of the more traditional novel; it offers a postmodern version of the lessons taught by fiction. Latin American fiction, perhaps the most inventive literature of recent …
Modern/Postmodern
A Study in Twentieth-Century Arts and Ideas
Av Silvio Gaggi
E-bok, 2015
422 kr
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Silvio Gaggi''s survey of the vast terrain of twentieth century arts and ideas is unique not only for its scope but also for the clarity and cohesiveness it brings to wide-ranging, seemingly disparate works. By identifying underlying epistemological, aesthetic, and ethical issues. Gaggi draws …
From Text to Hypertext
Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media
Av Silvio Gaggi
E-bok, 2015
488 kr
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It is a tenet of postmodern writing that the subject—the self—is unstable, fragmented, and decentered. One useful way to examine this principle is to look at how the subject has been treated in various media in the premodern, modern, and postmodern eras. Silvio Gaggi pursues this strategy in From …
