Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and FilmBRILL, 09.08.2016 - 264 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 7 |
Creative Bastardy in Sternes Tristram Shandy and Rushdies Midnights Children | 17 |
Rewriting the Canon in Contemporary Scottish Literature | 53 |
3 Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction | 69 |
Fight Club as a Refraction of Hoggs Justified Sinner and Stevensons Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | 83 |
Film Heroines of the Nineties | 95 |
6 Dickens and PostVictorian Fiction | 111 |
Charles Pallisers The Quincunx | 129 |
A Romance | 149 |
Jeanette Winterson and the Ethics of Absolutist Romance | 165 |
Caryl Phillips Subversive Rewritings | 187 |
Strategies of Writing Back in Zadie Smiths White Teeth and Caryl Phillips The Nature of Blood | 207 |
12 To Hamlet and back with Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones 2001 | 231 |
Notes on Contributors | 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 characters Charlotte Jones Clueless comedy contemporary Scottish critics cultural Dickens Dickensian echoes Emma essays example Fanny father female feminist fiction Fight Club film Fire of London Fluchère Frankenstein Gil-Martin Gray’s Hamlet Higher Ground Hogg Hogg’s Humble Boy hypotext identity intertextual Islam Jane Justified Sinner Leila Aboulela literary Little Dorrit Mansfield Park metaphor Midnight’s Children modern mother Muslim narrative narrator Nature of Blood Ophelia original Othello Oxford Palliser Palliser’s parody past Penguin play poets Post-Victorian postmodern PowerBook present protagonist Quincunx reader reading References refraction rewriting Rushdie Rushdie’s Saleem Sammar scene Scottish literature sense sexual Shakespeare Shandy’s Sterne Sterne’s story things tradition Tristram Shandy Tyler University Press Venetian Venice Victorian novel Walter Winterson’s woman women words writing Yorick Zadie Smith