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An art of desire : reading Paul Auster.
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ISBN: 9042004533 Year: 1999 Publisher: Amsterdam Rodopi

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An Art of Desire. Reading Paul Auster the first book-length study solely devoted to the novels of Paul Auster. From the vantage-point of poststructuralist theory, especially Lacanian psychoanalysis and Derridean deconstruction, this book explores the relation of Auster's novels City of Glass, In the Country of Last Things, Moon Palace, and The Music of Chance to the rewriting and deconstruction of genre conventions; their connections to concepts such as catastrophe theory, the sublime, Freud's notion of the 'death drive;' as well as the philosophical underpinnings of his work. At the focus of this study, however, is the concept of desire, an important concept in the writings of both Auster and Lacan, and the various manifestations of this concept in Auster's novels. Auster's novels always emphasize a kind of outside of the text (chance, the real, the unsayable), a kind of hope for a 'transparent language,' a hope, however, that is exactly posited as impossible to fulfill. The relation of Daniel Quinn, Anna Blume, Marco Fogg and Jim Nashe to this lack is the motor of their desire, the driving force for the subject that has always already left the real and has been inscribed into the representational system called 'reality.' It is here, in its relation to the signifier, that the subject's desire is played out, that its experience is ordered, interpreted, and articulated. It is their ability to make connections, to proliferate, to 'affirm free-play,' their ability 'not to bemoan the absence of the centre' that ultimately decides over success or failure of Auster's subjects - whether they partake in the 'joyous errance of the sign,' or whether their fate is that of the 'unfortunate traveler.'..Back cover.


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Mosaic of Juxtaposition : William S. Burroughs' narrative revolution
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ISBN: 9789042038486 Year: 2014 Volume: 51 Publisher: Amsterdam [etc.] Rodopi

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Literature and the experience of globalization : texts without borders.
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ISBN: 1350007560 9781350007567 Year: 2017 Publisher: London Bloomsbury

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How does literature represent, challenge and help us understand our experience of globalization? Taking literary globalization studies beyond its traditional political focus, Literature and the Experience of Globalization explores how writers from Shakespeare through Goethe to Isak Dinesen, J.M. Coetzee, Amitav Ghosh and Bruce Chatwin engage with the human dimensions of globalization. Through a wide range of insightful close readings, Svend Erik Larsen brings contemporary world literature approaches to bear on cross-cultural experiences of migration and travel, translation, memory, history and embodied knowledge. In doing so, this important intervention demonstrates how literature becomes an essential site for understanding the ways in which globalization has become an integral part of everyday experience.Review: This book offers a fresh, original, and wide-ranging take on what world literature is and means. Larsen's readings of a number of classics as well as of less-known works from less-known literatures are invariably illuminating. A must for anyone interested in how literature relates to globalization and for understanding what world literature studies is about.

Modernisms: a literary guide
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ISBN: 0333407393 1349240559 0333407385 9780333407394 Year: 1995 Publisher: Basingstoke Macmillan

The mystic fable. 1 : The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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ISBN: 0226100375 0226100367 Year: 1992 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) University of Chicago press

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The Cambridge introduction to postmodernism
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ISBN: 9781107021259 1107021251 9781139108706 9781107605510 1316354849 1139108700 1316348849 1107605512 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism surveys the full spectrum of postmodern culture - high and low, avant-garde and popular, famous and obscure - across a range of fields, from architecture and visual art to fiction, poetry, and drama. It deftly maps postmodernism's successive historical phases, from its emergence in the 1960s to its waning in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Weaving together multiple strands of postmodernism - people and places from Andy Warhol, Jefferson Airplane and magical realism, to Jean-François Lyotard, Laurie Anderson and cyberpunk - this book creates a rich picture of a complex cultural phenomenon that continues to exert an influence over our present 'post-postmodern' situation. Comprehensive and accessible, this Introduction is indispensable for scholars, students, and general readers interested in late twentieth-century culture.


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Contemporary poetry and postmodernism : dialogue and estrangement
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ISBN: 0333655664 0333655656 Year: 1996 Publisher: Basingstoke Macmillan


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Writing history as a prophet : postmodernist innovations of the historical novel
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ISBN: 9027222126 1556194250 9786613424488 9027277605 1283424487 9789027277602 9781283424486 9789027222121 661342448X Year: 1991 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,

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This is a postmodernist history of the historical novel with special attention to the political implications of the postmodernist attitude toward the past. Beginning with the poetics of Sir Walter Scott, Wesseling moves via a global survey of 19th century historical fiction to modernist innovations in the genre.Noting how the self-reflexive strategy enables a novelist to represent an episode from the past alongside the process of gathering and formulating historical knowledge, the author discusses the elaboration of this strategy, introduced by novelists such as Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner.


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The Oxford handbook of global modernisms.
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ISBN: 9780195338904 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press


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Territoires postmodernes : géocritique de Calvino, Echenoz, Pynchon et Ransmayr
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ISSN: 01545604 ISBN: 9782753533516 2753533512 2753557918 Year: 2014 Publisher: Rennes Presses universitaires de Rennes

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À rebours des thèses structuralistes, ce livre affirme que la littérature parle du monde. Il y a du hors-texte. Cette étude de quatre œuvres marquantes d'auteurs emblématiques du mouvement postmoderne apporte une contribution importante à la géocritique et aux théories de l'espace qui fleurissent aujourd'hui dans le domaine de la littérature générale et comparée. Le monde, balisé par les lignes imaginaires des géographes et des navigateurs, est sillonné par les migrants, les voyageurs et les armées en campagne. Les frontières quant à elles sont des lignes qui ancrent une identité dans le territoire, et ce sont bien souvent des obstacles infranchissables. L'approche géocritique met en évidence la crise de ces notions dans les descriptions de villes utopiques des Città invisibili d'Italo Calvino, dans la course folle de l'héroïne des Grandes Blondes, de Jean Echenoz, dans les espaces subjonctifs de la Zone que parcourent les personnages de Gravity's Rainbow, de Thomas Pynchon, et dans les déserts rocheux du grand roman d'après-guerre de Christoph Ransmayr, Morbus Kitahara. Une fois résolue la très ancienne question de la représentation mimétique qui se trouverait au fondement de toute œuvre d'art, on peut faire émerger l'idée que dans la fiction récente, les configurations spatiales participent à l'intrigue de façon déterminante. Au-delà de la nostalgie postmoderne pour un monde vaste, qui recèlerait encore une part d'inconnu et serait favorable à tous nos désirs, ces œuvres instaurent une nouvelle relation à l'espace. Conçu comme un ensemble rhizomatique de milieux et de flux connectés entre eux, le monde entretient avec la littérature des rapports dont les textes du corpus, dans leur variété, permettent de saisir la cohérence.

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