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Nonlinear Temporality in Joyce and Walcott
Nonlinear Temporality in Joyce and Walcott is the first dedicated comparative study of James Joyce and Derek Walcott. The book examines the ways in which both Joyce’s fiction and Walcott’s poetry articulate a nonlinear conception of time with radical cultural and political implications. For Joyce and Walcott equally, the book argues, it is only by reconceiving time in this way that it becomes possible to envisage a means of escape from what Joyce calls “force, hatred, history” and what Walcott calls the “madness of history seen as sequential time”. A starting point for the comparisons drawn between Joyce and Walcott is their relationship to Homer. Joyce’s Ulysses is in one resp...
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Beyond Tomorrow
Shows German Science Fiction's connections with utopian thought, and how it attempts Zukunftsbewältigung: coping with an uncertain but also unwritten future.
Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature
Featuring readings of contemporary utopian poetry and fiction from authors such as Juliana Spahr, Mohsin Hamid, Bong Joon-ho, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lidia Yukavitch, and Cory Doctorow, this book investigates the commons - a form of organisation based on collectivity, communalism and sharing - as a type of transition between capitalist precarity and crisis and anti-capitalist futures. Each of the texts under examination was written in opposition to a particular crisis of the capitalist present - inequality, political representation, mobility, and climate change - and develops a particular mode of utopian 'commoning'. Through its examination of these writers, crises and texts, this book reaffirms the use of utopianism as a tool for generating and representing alternative futures for a world in the midst of ongoing planetary crisis.
Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction
Focusing on the contemporary period, this book brings together critical age studies and contemporary science fiction to establish the centrality of age and ageing in dystopian, speculative and science-fiction imaginaries. Analysing texts from Europe, North America and South Asia, as well as television programmes and films, the contributions range from essays which establish genre-based trends in the representation of age and ageing, to very focused studies of particular texts and concerns. As a whole, the volume probes the relationship between speculative/science fiction and our understanding of what it is to be a human in time: the time of our own lives and the times of both the past and the future.
Forcierte Form
Das Versepos, einst bedeutend unter den literarischen Gattungen und mit einer reichen Tradition seit der Antike, ist im deutschsprachigen wie im europäischen Raum seit etlichen Jahrzehnten deutlich weniger im Fokus. Immer wieder totgesagt, ist es jedoch lebendiger als vermutet. Versepen werden weiterhin verfasst, und zwar zu unterschiedlichsten Themen und Zwecken als eine besonders forcierte Form im Rekurs auf die Traditionen der Gattung. Der vorliegende Band rekapituliert zentrale Traditionslinien und analysiert dann in exemplarischer Absicht deutschsprachige Versepen der literarischen Moderne und der Nachkriegszeit bis in die Gegenwart sowie angrenzende Beispiele in italienischer, russischer und englischer Sprache.
اليوتوبيا والديستوبيا فى رواية أحمد خالد توفيق
يقدم هذا الكتاب قراءة جادة ومتعمقة في أدب د. أحمد خالد توفيق، وهي دراسة تسعى إلى الوقوف على السمات التي جمعت ما بين أعمال الكاتب الراحل الروائية وخاصة ثنائية اليوتوبيا والديستوبيا كخصائص أساسية رسمت وشكلت عالم أحمد خالد توفيق ومشروعه الأدبي والخيال السائد في رواياته، ويتخذ الكتاب أعمال د. أحمد خالد توفيق نموذجًا أمثل يفسر ويناقش مفاهيم اليوتوبيا والديستوبيا التي استحدثت نوع جديد ...
Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer
Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer puts Derek Walcott's epic poem Omeros in conversation with Homer, especially the Odyssey, to show how reading them against each other changes our understanding of the poems of both poets. It explores Walcott's conscious use of the Odyssey and the Homeric persona of Omeros to explore his own deepening relationship with his craft and his identity as a Caribbean poet. Walcott's ability to serve as the vessel of history for his people and their landscapes rests on his transformation into (and self-perception as) Homer's contemporary and equal. Central to the project of Omeros is thus an account of his shift from a diachronic to synchronic relationship with Ho...
