كتاب
Seaing through the past: postmodern histories and the maritime metaphor in contemporary Anglophone fiction
| العنوان: | Seaing through the past: postmodern histories and the maritime metaphor in contemporary Anglophone fiction |
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| المؤلفون: | Rostek, Joanna. |
| بيانات النشر: | Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011. |
| سنة النشر: | 2011 |
| وصف مادي: | 363 p. ; 24 cm. |
| سلاسل: | Postmodern studies Postmodern studies |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism., English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism., Ocean travel in literature., Sea in literature., Seafaring life in literature., Criticism, interpretation, etc., Electronic books |
| الوصف: | "From Daniel Defoe to Joseph Conrad, from Virginia Woolf to Derek Walcott, the sea has always been an inspiring setting and a powerful symbol for generations of British and Anglophone writers. Seaing through the Past is the first study to explicitly address the enduring relevance of the maritime metaphor in contemporary Anglophone fiction through in-depth readings of fourteen influential and acclaimed novels published in the course of the last three decades. The book trenchantly argues that in contemporary fiction, maritime imagery gives expression to postmodernism's troubled relationship with historical knowledge, as theorised by Hayden White, Linda Hutcheon, and others. The texts in question are interpreted against the backdrop of four aspects of metahistorical problematisation. Thus, among others, Iris Murdoch's The Sea, the Sea (1978) is read in the context of auto/biographical writing, John Banville's The Sea (2005) as a narrative of personal trauma, Julian Barnes's A History of the World in 10 Chapters (1989) as investigating the connection between discourses of origin and the politics of power, and Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts (1997) as opening up a postcolonial perspective on the sea and history. Persuasive and topical, Seaing through the Past offers a compelling guide to the literary oceans of today"--Back cover. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | New Histories -- Old Metaphor -- Wavering Biographies: Remembering Individual Histories -- Salvaging the Self: Narratives of Personal Trauma -- Influential Sources: Discourses of Origin and the Politics of Power -- Reclaiming the Drowned: Post/Colonial Histories. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn752320526 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-90-420-3381-8 978-94-012-0079-0 90-420-3381-9 94-012-0079-3 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-358) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.012971262.0 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
Full Text Finder | ردمك: | 9789042033818 9789401200790 9042033819 9401200793 |
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