Cowart David Literary Symbiosis: The Reconfigured Text in Twentieth-Century Writing 9780820341224

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Автор: Cowart David
Название: Literary Symbiosis: The Reconfigured Text in Twentieth-Century Writing
ISBN: 9780820341224
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литературоведение: с 1900 г.

ISBN-10: 0820341223
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 240
Вес: 0.41 кг.
Дата издания: 30.01.2012
Серия: Literature/Literary Studies
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations
Размер: 154 x 229 x 19
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: from c 1900 -
Подзаголовок: The reconfigured text in twentieth-century writing
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Usually literary borrowings are so integrated into the new work as to be disguised; however, according to David Cowart, the last decades of the twentieth century saw an increasing number of texts that attached themselves to their sources in seemingly parasitic—but, more accurately, symbiotic—dependence. It is this kind of mutuality that Cowart examines in his wide-ranging and richly provocative study Literary Symbiosis..In works exhibiting literary symbiosis, Cowart notes, intertextuality surrenders its usual veil of near invisibility to become concrete and explicit—a phenomenon that Cowart sees as part of the postmodern tendency toward self-consciousness and self-reflexivity. He recognizes that literary symbiosis has some close cousins and so limits his compass to works that are genuine reinterpretations, writings that cast a new light on earlier works through some tangible measure of formal or thematic evolution, whether on the part of the guest alone or the host and guest together. Proceeding from this intriguing premise, he offers detailed readings of texts that range from Audens The Sea and the Mirror, based on The Tempest, to Valerie Martins reworking of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Mary Reilly, to various fictions based on Robinson Crusoe. He also considers, in Nabokovs Pale Fire, a compelling example of text and parasitic-text within a single work..Drawing on and responding to the ideas of disparate thinkers and critics—among them Freud, Lacan, Derrida, Harold Bloom, Hillis Miller, and Henry Louis Gates Jr.—Cowart discusses literary symbiosis as Oedipal drama, as reading and misreading, as deconstruction, as Signifying, and as epistemic dialogue. Although his main examples come from the contemporary period, he refers to works dating back to the classical era in a range of genres. The study of literary symbiosis, Cowart contends, can reveal much about the dynamics of literary renewal in every age. If all literature redeems the familiar, he suggests, literary symbiosis redeems the familiar in literature itself.

Literary Symbiosis: The Reconfigured Text in Twentieth-Century Writing, Cowart David