Amalgamemnon

Author : Christine Brooke-Rose
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564780508
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amalgamemnon written by Christine Brooke-Rose and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and literature seem to be losing ground in the contemporary world of electronic media, and battle lines have been drawn between the humanities and technology, the first world and the third, women and men. Narrator Mira Enketei erases these boundaries in a punning monologue that blends the contemporary with the historical, and in which she sees herself as Cassandra, condemned by Apollo to prophesy but never to be believed, enslaved by Agamemnon after the fall of Troy. Here, Brooke-Rose amalgamates ancient literature and modern anxieties to produce a powerful novel about our future.

Author : Ellen G. Friedman
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564780799
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Utterly Other Discourse written by Ellen G. Friedman and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British novelist and critic Christine Brooke-Rose (born 1923) is increasingly being regarded as one of the most significant writers of the contemporary period. In her dozen novels she has explored themes as diverse as biligualism (as a metaphor for alienation) and the influence of computer technology on the humanities. As these themes suggest, Brooke-Rose is sometimes perceived as a difficult writer, especially given the dazzling virtuosity of the linguistic wordplay that enlivens her later novels. "Utterly Other Discourse" (a phrase from her 1984 novel "Amalgamemnon") provides a valuable introduction to her work; in fifteen essays--some previously published, some written for this book--scholars from America, England, and Europe examine her work from a variety of critical angles.

Author : Theo d'. Haen
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051836530
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Postmodern Fiction written by Theo d'. Haen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian McHale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135083630
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing Postmodernism written by Brian McHale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian McHale provides a series of readings of a wide range of postmodernist fiction, from Eco's Foucault's Pendulum to the works of cyberpunk science-fiction, relating the works to aspects of postmodern popular culture.

Author : Judy Little
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809320615
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Experimental Self written by Judy Little and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Bakhtin, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard and, other modern thinkers, Little (English, Southern Illinois U.) challenges the notion that Western individuality is oppressive and destructive, and examines the political complexity of the self in the novels of 20th-century women. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Ellen G. Friedman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400859948
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Sequence written by Ellen G. Friedman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These nineteen essays introduce the rich and until now largely unexplored tradition of women's experimental fiction in the twentieth century. The writers discussed here range from Gertrude Stein to Christine Brooke-Rose and include, among others, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Jane Bowles, Marguerite Young, Eva Figes, Joyce Carol Oates, and Marguerite Duras. "Friedman and Fuchs demonstrate the breadth of their research, first in their introduction to the volume, in which they outline the history of the reception of women's experimental fiction, and analyze and categorize the work not only of the writers to whom essays are devoted but of a number of others, too; and second in an extensive and wonderfully useful bibliography."--Emma Kafalenos, The International Fiction Review "After an introduction that is practically itself a monograph, eighteen essayists (too many of them distinguished to allow an equitable sampling) take up three generations of post-modernists."--American Literature "The editors see this volume as part of the continuing feminist project of the `recovery and foregrounding of women writers.' Friedman and Fuchs's substantive introduction excellently synthesizes the issues presented in the rest of the volume."--Patrick D. Murphy, Studies in the Humanities Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Debra Malina
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814208960
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Frame written by Debra Malina and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume abstracts a model of metaleptic subject construction that has significant implications for narrative theory: rather than viewing narrative as static product, the deconstructive narratology it launches would accommodate narrative's bidirectional or cyclical dynamics and elaborate the "energetics" of the narrative process."--Jacket.

Author : Christine Brooke-Rose
Publisher : Verbivoracious Press
ISBN 13 : 9810794088
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Verbivoracious Festschrift Volume One: written by Christine Brooke-Rose and published by Verbivoracious Press. This book was released on 2015-05-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The flagship issue fêtes Christine Brooke-Rose, one of the most innovative voices of the twentieth century, whose fiction plays challenging games with form and structure, using grammatical constraints, multiple languages, and a dicing of genre styles and theoretical discourses as an integral component of her novels. Brooke-Rose is among an unfortunate revue of writers whose work is fading out of print, rarely part of critical or academic discussion. This 320-page issue contains creative and critical responses to her fiction, theory, and criticism, written with an eye to the general literary reader unfamiliar with her output, but with enough homage, parody, imitation, and analysis to excite her devoted fan base.

Author : R. M. Berry
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079147920X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fiction's Present written by R. M. Berry and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining creative and critical responses from some of today's most progressive and innovative novelists, critics, and theorists, Fiction's Present adventurously engages the aesthetic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction. By juxtaposing scholarly articles with essays by practicing novelists, the book takes up not only the current state of literature and its criticism but also connections between contemporary philosophy and contemporary fiction. In doing so, the contributors aim to provoke further discussion of the present inflection of fiction—a present that can be seen as Janus-faced, looking both forward to the novel's radically changed, political, economic, and technological circumstances, and back to its history of achievements and problems. Editors R. M. Berry and Jeffrey R. Di Leo contend that examinations of fiction's present are most informative not when they defend philosophical distinctions or develop literary classifications, but when they grapple with elusive topics such as the meaning of a narrative present or the relation of fiction's medium to its representations of context. As the essays reveal, this process, when pursued diligently, breaks down traditional divisions of academic and intellectual labor, compelling the fiction writer to become more philosophical and the theorist to become more imaginative. The value of this book is not in the exhaustiveness of its treatment, but rather in the seriousness of the criticism it incites. The present materializes in quarrel, and it is toward such a beginning that the writings in Fiction's Present work.

Author : Tom Burns
Publisher : Contemporary Literary Criticis
ISBN 13 : 9780787667573
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Literary Criticism written by Tom Burns and published by Contemporary Literary Criticis. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.