Refracting the canon in contemporary British literature and film /
Refracting the canon in contemporary British literature and film /
edited by Susana Onega and Christian Gutleben.
- 1 online resource (261 pages)
- Postmodern studies ; 35 .
- Postmodern Studies 35. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction / Clock-ridden Births: Creative Bastardy in Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children / Double Refraction: Rewriting the Canon in Contemporary Scottish Literature / Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction / “Dr Jekyll and Mr Jackass”: Fight Club as a Refraction of Hogg’s Justified Sinner and Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Return to Austen: Film Heroines of the Nineties / Dickens and Post-Victorian Fiction / Parody as Revisionary Critique: Charles Palliser’s The Quincunx / Refracting the Past in Praise of the Dead Poets in Possession: A Romance / Hearts Object: Jeanette Winterson and the Ethics of Absolutist Romance / Between Othello and Equiano: Caryl Phillips’ Subversive Rewritings / Challenging Shakespeare: Strategies of Writing Back in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood / To Hamlet and back with Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones (2001) / Notes on Contributors / Index / Susana Onega and Christian Gutleben -- Christian Gutleben and Susana Onega -- Catherine Pesso-Miquel -- Dietmar Boehnke -- John A. Stotesbury -- Kirsten Stirling -- Celestino Deleyto Alcalá -- Georges Letissier -- J. Hillis Miller -- Margarida Esteves Pereira -- Jean-Michel Ganteau -- Fernando Galván -- Petra Tournay -- Nicole Boireau -- Susana Onega and Christian Gutleben -- Susana Onega and Christian Gutleben.
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Contemporary works of art that remodel the canon not only create complex, hybrid and plural products but also alter our perceptions and understanding of their source texts. This is the dual process, referred to in this volume as “refraction”, that the essays collected here set out to discuss and analyse by focusing on the dialectic rapport between postmodernism and the canon. What is sought in many of the essays is a redefinition of postmodernist art and a re-examination of the canon in the light of contemporary epistemology. Given this dual process, this volume will be of value both to everyone interested in contemporary art—particularly fiction, drama and film—and also to readers whose aim it is to promote a better appreciation of canonical British literature.
9789401208307
10.1163/9789401208307 DOI
2012288344
English literature--History and criticism.
Motion pictures--History--Theory, etc.
English literature.
Motion pictures.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR57 / .R44 2004
820.9
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction / Clock-ridden Births: Creative Bastardy in Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children / Double Refraction: Rewriting the Canon in Contemporary Scottish Literature / Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction / “Dr Jekyll and Mr Jackass”: Fight Club as a Refraction of Hogg’s Justified Sinner and Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Return to Austen: Film Heroines of the Nineties / Dickens and Post-Victorian Fiction / Parody as Revisionary Critique: Charles Palliser’s The Quincunx / Refracting the Past in Praise of the Dead Poets in Possession: A Romance / Hearts Object: Jeanette Winterson and the Ethics of Absolutist Romance / Between Othello and Equiano: Caryl Phillips’ Subversive Rewritings / Challenging Shakespeare: Strategies of Writing Back in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood / To Hamlet and back with Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones (2001) / Notes on Contributors / Index / Susana Onega and Christian Gutleben -- Christian Gutleben and Susana Onega -- Catherine Pesso-Miquel -- Dietmar Boehnke -- John A. Stotesbury -- Kirsten Stirling -- Celestino Deleyto Alcalá -- Georges Letissier -- J. Hillis Miller -- Margarida Esteves Pereira -- Jean-Michel Ganteau -- Fernando Galván -- Petra Tournay -- Nicole Boireau -- Susana Onega and Christian Gutleben -- Susana Onega and Christian Gutleben.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Contemporary works of art that remodel the canon not only create complex, hybrid and plural products but also alter our perceptions and understanding of their source texts. This is the dual process, referred to in this volume as “refraction”, that the essays collected here set out to discuss and analyse by focusing on the dialectic rapport between postmodernism and the canon. What is sought in many of the essays is a redefinition of postmodernist art and a re-examination of the canon in the light of contemporary epistemology. Given this dual process, this volume will be of value both to everyone interested in contemporary art—particularly fiction, drama and film—and also to readers whose aim it is to promote a better appreciation of canonical British literature.
9789401208307
10.1163/9789401208307 DOI
2012288344
English literature--History and criticism.
Motion pictures--History--Theory, etc.
English literature.
Motion pictures.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR57 / .R44 2004
820.9