Refracting the canon in contemporary British literature and film
Susana Onega Jaén (Editor), Christian Gutleben (Editor)
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
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261 pages ; 22 cm.
9789042010505, 9042010509
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Clock-ridden births : creative bastardy in Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Rushdie's Midnight's Children / Catherine Pesso-Miquel
Double refraction : rewriting the canon in contemporary Scottish literature / Dietmar Boehnke
Genre and Islam in recent Anglophone romantic fiction / John A. Stotesbury
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass : Fight Club as a refraction of Hogg's Justified Sinner and Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Kirsten Stirling
Return to Austen : film heroines of the nineties / Celestino Deleyto Alcalá
Dickens and Post-Victorian fiction / Georges Letissier
Parody as revisionary critique : Charles Palliser's The Quincunx / J. Hillis Miller
Refracting the past in praise of the dead poets in Possession : A Romance / Margarida Esteves Pereira
Hearts object : Jeanette Winterson and the ethics of absolutist romance / Jean-Michel Ganteau
Between Othello and Equiano : Caryl Phillips' subversive rewritings / Fernando Galván
Challenging Shakespeare : strategies of writing back in Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Caryl Phillips' The Nature of Blood / Petra Tournay
To Hamlet and back with Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones (2001) / Nicole Boireau
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