| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; [29] |
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Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 29.
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| Contents |
Introduction : transmodern perspectives on literature / Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen and José María Yebra-Pertusa -- The crossroads of transmodernity / Rosa María Rodríguez-Magda -- Transmodernity, capital and queer utopian critique : days without end / David Alderson -- Oulipian games, transpersonality and the logic of potentiality in David Mitchell's Ghostwritten / Susana Onega -- Refracting the transmodern : Harry Parker's Anatomy of a soldier / Jean-Michel Ganteau -- From egology to ecology : elements of the transmodern in Tim Winton's Eyrie / Bárbara Arizti -- In the narrative fiction of a global society closed spaces no longer exist / Barbara Pushmann-Nalenz -- David Mitchell's Slade house and the non-place of transmodernism / Gerd Bayer -- The aftermath of terrorism in the transmodern city as reflected in Tabish Khair's How to fight Islamist terror from the missionary position / Dolores Herrero -- Signs of transmodern relationships in Richard Rodriguez's darling : a spiritual autobiography / Aitor Ibarrola -- Geopoetics and the poetry of consciousness3 : a transmodern perspective / Monika Kocot -- The intimate-universal : Juliet/Julieta / Marc Amfreville -- Adichie's "The American embassy" and "Jumping Monkey Hill" : a transmodern response to transmodernity / Violeta Duce -- Some concluding remarks / José María Yebra-Pertusa and Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen |
| Summary |
"Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English offers a constructive dialogue on the concept of the transmodern, focusing on the works by very different contemporary authors from all over the world, such as: Chimanda Ngozi Adichie, Margaret Atwood, Sebastian Barry, A.S. Byatt, Tabish Khair, David Mitchell, Alice Munroe, Harry Parker, Caryl Phillips, Richard Rodriguez, Alan Spence, Tim Winton and Kenneth White. The volume offers a thorough questioning of the concept of the transmodern, as well as an informed insight into the future formal and thematic development of literature in English"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen is Lecturer in English at the Centro Universitario de la Defensa Zaragoza in Spain. Josâe M. Yebra is Lecturer in English at the University of Zaragoza in Spain |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 14, 2019) |
| Subject |
Modernism (Literature)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Modernism (Literature)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Aliaga Lavrijsen, Jessica, editor.
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Yebra-Pertusa, José María, 1972- editor.
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| LC no. |
2019009440 |
| ISBN |
9780429243639 |
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0429243634 |
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0429516789 |
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9780429516788 |
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9780429513350 |
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0429513356 |
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9780429520211 |
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0429520212 |
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