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Patriarchy and Its Discontents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Patriarchy and Its Discontents

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Paradigms of Authority in the Carver Canon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 515

Paradigms of Authority in the Carver Canon

Raymond Carver's personal story as a writer became publicly known through an unu­su­ally intense co­op­e­­ration with his literary agent Gordon Lish. Carver’s career can be viewed as the story of a fight for the control of his writerly voice in which he is doomed to fail due to the heterogeneity characterizing the ge­nesis of his works. The paral­­­­­­­­lel ver­­­­sions of the same stories in the Carver canon not only pose a threat to any attempt of a sim­plistic evaluation of his li­te­­r­ary legacy but also raise qu­es­tions about the authority of the wri­ter. The au­thor of the present book considers the choices Carver, Lish and other editors made part of the collective social act of manufactur­ing and at­­­­tempts to carry out a neutral anal­­­ysis of the various versions.

The Dirty Realism Duo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 186

The Dirty Realism Duo

CHARLES BUKOWSKI & RAYMOND CARVER Charles Bukowski and Raymond Carver were credited as the fathers of the "Dirty Realism" genre in the 1980s--branching out from minimalism, the stripping of fiction down to the least amount of words and a concentration on the subject's view of the object. The characters are usually run-of-the-mill, every day people--the lower and middle class worker, the unemployed, the alcoholic, the beaten-down-by-life. In this experimental monograph (in the vein of D. H. Lawrence's Studies in Contemporary American Fiction), avante/pop literary critic Michael Hemmingson examines these dirty works of Bukowski and Carver through the lens of late twentieth-century American cul...

In the Shadows of Divine Perfection
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

In the Shadows of Divine Perfection

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  • Published: 2004-11-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In the Shadows of Divine Perfection provides an examination of Derek Walcott's Omeros 1990)- the St. Lucian poet's longest work, and the piece that secured his Nobel Laureate-that reveals the deep-seated bond between the root narratives of ancient Greece to the cultural products and practices of the contemporary Caribbean. This book presents the first detailed reading of Walcott's highly controversial attempt to craft a Caribbean master narrative. This book also presents an overview of the poem's ideological orientation and a far-reaching critique of current postcolonial theory. Lance Callahan engages some of the most vexing problems of authenticity by reading Walcott's work alongside ancient Greek literature and culture.

The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse

An aesthetic perspective on the short fiction of Chekhov, Joyce, Hemingway, O'Connor, and Carver Taking a distinctively aesthetic approach to the genre of realist short fiction, Kerry McSweeney clusters the work of five masters--Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver--to offer a poetics of the form for students and scholars. At the center of this argument is the notion that the realist short story is a glimpse--powerful and tightly focused--into a world that the writer must precisely craft and in which the reader must fully invest. Selecting writers from different generational, national, and cultural backgrounds, McSweeney chooses writers based on...

Who Reads Ulysses?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

Who Reads Ulysses?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-28
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Julie Sloan Brannon examines the Joyce Wars as a fascinating nexus of the conflicts between scholars and ordinary readers, and one that illuminates the existence of ulysses-and by extension, Joyce-as an example of Lyotard's differend, an icon that exists simultaneously in two separate yet contradictory discourses, each of which silences the other. The Academic Joyce is radically different from the Public Joyce, and yet neither could exist independently. Tangled up in this conflicted space are the interests of the common reader, a nebulously defined entity, and the continuing controversies illustrate the strange relationship between academics, readers, and editors. Who Reads Ulysses? calls for us to look not only at questions of authorship raised by editorial theory, but to look carefully at who reads ulysses-and why they read it. This volume provides fruitful ways to explore the subversive nature of text for readers, both in and out of the academy.

The Artistry and Tradition of Tennyson's Battle Poetry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 198

The Artistry and Tradition of Tennyson's Battle Poetry

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-03
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Carver Chronotope
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 199

The Carver Chronotope

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-02-24
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Raymond Carver's fiction is widely known for its careful documentation of lower-middle-class North America in the 1970s and 80s. Building upon the realist understanding of Carver's work, Raymond Carver's Chronotope uses a central concept of Bakhtin's novelistics to formulate a new context for understanding the celebrated author's minimalist fiction. G. P. Lainsbury describes the critical reception of Carver's work and stakes out his own intellectual and imaginative territory by arguing that Carver's fiction can be understood as diffuse, fragmentary, and randomly ordered. Offering a fresh analysis of Carver's body of work, this book offers an extensive meditation on this major figure in postmodern U.S. fiction.

Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020

Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US postmodernity. Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020 responds to existing studies of literary minimalism by pursuing three original and interrelated objectives. It provides a more inclusive and precise definition of minimalism that enables further inquiry into the mode. It also exposes the presence of minimalism beyond critical demarcations that attempt to limit the aesthetic to a particular school, medium, movement, form or decade. Finally, it argues that writers of American literary minimalism are uniquely privileged in their ability to formalize precarity and ...

A New Matrix for Modernism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

A New Matrix for Modernism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Many studies of poetic modernism focus on the avatars of High Modernism, Eliot, Pound and Yeats, who created a critical coterie based on culture and class. A New Matrix for Modernism introduces a matrilineage for modernism that traces a distinct women's poetic voice from the Bronte sisters through Alice Meynell to modernists Charlotte Mew and Anna Wickham who combine feminist content with an innovative exploration of formalist prosody. Shifting emphasis from woman to child, mother to daughter, and urbs to suburb, relocating modernism's matrilingua to the boundaries of London society and culture, A NewMatrix for Modernism ranges widely among architecture, mental illness, Fabianism, Positivism, Theosophy, women's suffrage and education to a new house for modernism-a woman's place of secret joys and sorrows. Well researched yet passionate, this book will appeal to both the scholar and the generalist interested in modernism, poetry, feminism, culture and British literary history.