This book examines the writing of David Foster Wallace, hailed as the voice of a generation on his death. Critics have identified horror of solipsism, obsession with sincerity and a corresponding ambivalence regarding postmodern irony, and detailed attention to contemporary culture as the central elements of Wallace's writing. Clare Hayes-Brady draws on the evolving discourses of Wallace studies, focusing on the unifying anti-teleology of his writing, arguing that that position is a fundamentally political response to the condition of neo-liberal America.
She argues that Wallace's work is most unified by its resistance to closure, which pervades the structural, narrative and stylistic elements of his writing. Taking a broadly thematic approach to the numerous types of 'failure', or lack of completion, visible throughout his work, the book offers a framework within which to read Wallace's work as a coherent whole, rather than split along the lines of fiction versus non-fiction, or pre- and post-Infinite Jest, two critical positions that have become dominant over the last five years. While demonstrating the centrality of 'failure', the book also explores Wallace's approach to sincere communication as a recurring response to what he saw as the inane, self-absorbed commodification of language and society, along with less explored themes such as gender, naming and heroism.
Situating Wallace as both a product of his time and an artist sui generis, Hayes-Brady details his abiding interest in philosophy, language and the struggle for an authentic self in late-twentieth-century America.
Автор: Cabanas Miguel A., Dubino Jeanne, Salles-Reese Veronica Название: Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing ISBN: 1138823457 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138823457 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 24499.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection examines the intersections between the personal and the political in travel writing, and the dialectic between mobility and stasis, through an analysis of specific cases across geographical and historical boundaries. The authors explore the various ways in which travel texts represent actual political conditions and thus engage in discussions about national, transnational, and global citizenship; how they propose real-world political interventions in the places where the traveler goes; what tone they take toward political or socio-political violence; and how they intersect with political debates. Travel writing can be viewed as political in a purely instrumental sense, but, as this volume also demonstrates, travel writing’s reception and ideological interventions also transform personal and cultural realities. This book thus examines the ways in which politics’ material effects inform and intersect with personal experience in travel texts and engage with travel’s dialectic of mobility and stasis. In spite of globalization and efforts to eradicate the colonial vision in travel writing and in travel writing criticism, this vision persists in various and complex ways. While the travelogue can be a space of discursive and direct oppression, these essays suggest that the travelogue is also a narrative space in which the traveler employs the genre to assert authority over his or her experiences of mobility. This book will be an important contribution for interdisciplinary scholars with interests in travel writing studies, global and transnational studies, women’s studies, multicultural studies, the social sciences, and history.
Автор: Micaela Maftei Название: The Fiction of Autobiography: Reading and Writing Identity ISBN: 1623569028 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781623569020 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 22176.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Writing autobiography is a complicated, often fraught activity for both writer and reader. We can find many recent examples of the way such writing calls into question the author's truthfulness or their authority to present as definitive their 'version' of a particular event or portion of their lives. Drawing upon a wide range of late twentieth and early twenty-first-century autobiographical writing, The Fiction of Autobiography examines key aspects of autobiography from the interrelated perspectives of author, reader, critic and scholar, to reconsider how we view this form of writing, and its relationship to the way we understand and construct identity.
Maftei considers recent cases and texts such as Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and Frey's A Million Little Pieces alongside older texts such as Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Nabokov's Speak, Memory and Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. In part, this is to emphasise that key issues reappear and arise over decades and centuries, and that texts distanced by time can speak to each other thoughtfully and poignantly.
Автор: Twain Mark Название: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1 ISBN: 0520267192 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520267190 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5518.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "I`ve struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away - to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." This title tells his story.
Описание: Fiction writers share the secrets of their craft in essays geared for the serious writer
Автор: Ingermanson Randy, Economy Peter Название: Writing Fiction for Dummies ISBN: 0470530707 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780470530702 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3166.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A complete guide to writing and selling your novel So you want to write a novel? Great! That`s a worthy goal, no matter what your reason. But don`t settle for just writing a novel. Aim high. Write a novel that you intend to sell to a publisher.
Описание: Chronicles Twain`s inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. This book deals with his life and work.
Описание: Brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, this title delves into Mark Twain`s life, uncovering the many roles he played in his private and public worlds.
Автор: Halverson Deborah Название: Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies ISBN: 0470949546 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780470949542 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3008.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies offers writers all the key information and steps necessary to write a fiction book for young adults - from developing an idea to publication. Young adult fiction has specific content and format, and this book shows writers how to fit the style that appeals to young readers.
Автор: Trollope Название: An Autobiography ISBN: 0192838458 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192838452 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1424.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Trollope relates his life from the influence of his childhood and mother, to the time he spent in the Post Office and the motivation behind his literary career.
Автор: Mill, John Stuart Название: Autobiography ISBN: 0198759606 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198759607 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1582.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: J. S. Mill was the greatest British philosopher of the nineteenth century. Mill`s purpose in writing his Autobiography was to set down his own struggle for individuality, and vindicate his life to himself and others.
Описание: Covering the works of Canadian authors Alistair Macleod, Michael Ondaatje, Jane Urquhart, Margaret Atwood and Drew Hayden Taylor, the author explores how the themes of memory, storytelling and identity develop in their fiction.
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