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Author : Gerard Genette
Release : 1982
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Book Synopsis Figures of Literary Discourse. Translated by Alan Sheridan by : Gerard Genette
Download or read book Figures of Literary Discourse. Translated by Alan Sheridan written by Gerard Genette. This book was released on 1982. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerard Genette
Release : 1997-03-13
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Paratexts by : Gerard Genette
Download or read book Paratexts written by Gerard Genette. This book was released on 1997-03-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paratexts are those liminal devices and conventions, both within and outside the book, that form part of the complex mediation between book, author, publisher and reader: titles, forewords, epigraphs and publishers' jacket copy are part of a book's private and public history. In this first English translation of Paratexts, Gérard Genette shows how the special pragmatic status of paratextual declaration requires a carefully calibrated analysis of their illocutionary force. With clarity, precision and an extraordinary range of reference, Paratexts constitutes an encyclopedic survey of the customs and institutions as revealed in the borderlands of the text. Genette presents a global view of these liminal mediations and the logic of their relation to the reading public by studying each element as a literary function. Richard Macksey's foreword describes how the poetics of paratexts interact with more general questions of literature as a cultural institution, and situates Gennet's work in contemporary literary theory.
Author : Richard H. Okada
Release : 1991-10-18
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Figures of Resistance by : Richard H. Okada
Download or read book Figures of Resistance written by Richard H. Okada. This book was released on 1991-10-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revisionist study of texts from the mid-Heian period in Japan, H. Richard Okada offers new readings of three well-known tales: The Tale of the Bamboo-cutter, The Tale of Ise, and The Tale of Genji. Okada contends that the cultural and gendered significance of these works has been distorted by previous commentaries and translations belonging to the larger patriarchal and colonialist discourse of Western civilization. He goes on to suggest that this universalist discourse, which silences the feminine aspects of these texts and subsumes their writing in misapplied Western canonical literary terms, is sanctioned and maintained by the discipline of Japanese literature. Okada develops a highly original and sophisticated reading strategy that demonstrates how readers might understand texts belonging to a different time and place without being complicit in their assimilation to categories derived from Western literary traditions. The author’s reading stratgey is based on the texts’ own resistance to modes of analysis that employ such Western canonical terms as novel, lyric, and third-person narrative. Emphasis is also given to the distinctive cultural circles, as well as socio-political and genealogical circumstances that surrounded the emergence of the texts. Indispensable readings for specialists in literature, cultural studies, and Japanese literature and history, Figures of Resistance will also appeal to general readers interested in the problems and complexities of studying another culture.
Author : Gerard Genette
Release : 1984-04-01
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Book Synopsis Figures of Literary Discourse by : Gerard Genette
Download or read book Figures of Literary Discourse written by Gerard Genette. This book was released on 1984-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Simmons
Release : 2000
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Book Synopsis Lord Jim by : Allan Simmons
Download or read book Lord Jim written by Allan Simmons. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lord Jim: Centennial Essays" features eight essays by major Conrad scholars to celebrate the centenary of the publication of what is possibly Joseph Conrad's best known novel. This carefully edited volume covers a wide range of topics, and includes new work on the novel's reception and sources, narrative strategies, and thematic interests. Various contemporary critical approaches - Bakhtinian, postcolonial, and historicist - are aired and reconsidered, and a generous selection of documents relating to the Jeddah affair of 1880 sheds light on Conrad's use of real-life materials. The kaleidoscopic perspectives brought to bear on this landmark of literary Modernism will stimulate and challenge both scholars and students alike.
