
By B. Bennett
ISBN-10: 1137381876
ISBN-13: 9781137381873
ISBN-10: 1349479764
ISBN-13: 9781349479764
By B. Bennett
ISBN-10: 1137381876
ISBN-13: 9781137381873
ISBN-10: 1349479764
ISBN-13: 9781349479764
By Mary Beth Rose
ISBN-10: 3319404539
ISBN-13: 9783319404530
This e-book explores the inconsistent literary representations of motherhood in various texts starting from the fourth to the 20 th centuries. Mary Beth Rose finds plots startling of their frequency and redundancy that fight to deal with —or to obliterate—the complicated assertions of maternal authority because it demanding situations conventional kinfolk and social buildings. The research engages mom plots: the useless mom plot, during which the mum is death or lifeless; and the dwelling mom plot, within which the mummy is alive and during her very presence within the textual content, places frequently insufferable strain at the mechanics of the plot. those plots reappear and are reworked via authors as varied in chronology and use of literary shape as Augustine, Shakespeare, Milton, Oscar Wilde, and Tony Kushner. The publication argues that, insofar as girls develop into the second one intercourse, it isn't simply because they're adult females consistent with se yet simply because they're moms; whilst the research probes the transformative political and social strength of motherhood because it appears to be like in modern texts like Angels in America.
By Bethan Jones
ISBN-10: 0754667006
ISBN-13: 9780754667001
By Charles Ross
ISBN-10: 0754632636
ISBN-13: 9780754632634
By Elaine V. Beilin
ISBN-10: 0754661652
ISBN-13: 9780754661658
By Linden Peach
ISBN-10: 0230202829
ISBN-13: 9780230202825
ISBN-10: 0230202837
ISBN-13: 9780230202832
By a foreword by Lisa Jardine,Philip Major
ISBN-10: 1409400069
ISBN-13: 9781409400066
By Alexander Broadie
ISBN-10: 0521003237
ISBN-13: 9780521003230
ISBN-10: 0521802733
ISBN-13: 9780521802734
By Matthew Whittle
ISBN-10: 1137540133
ISBN-13: 9781137540133
This booklet examines literary texts by way of British colonial servant and settler writers, together with Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, William Golding, and Alan Sillitoe, who depicted the impression of decolonization within the newly self sustaining colonies and at domestic in Britain. The finish of the British Empire was once some of the most major and transformative occasions in twentieth-century historical past, marking the start of a brand new international order and having an indelible effect on British tradition and society. Literary responses to this second through these from inside of Britain supply an enlightening (and usually ignored) exploration of the impact of decolonization on acquired notions of “race” and sophistication, whereas additionally prefiguring conceptions of multiculturalism. As Matthew Whittle argues during this sweeping research, those works not just view decolonization inside its international context (alongside the aftermath of the second one international battle, the increase of the US, and mass immigration) yet frequently suggest an answer to imperial decline via cultural renewal.
By Patrick O'Donnell
ISBN-10: 144115728X
ISBN-13: 9781441157287
ISBN-10: 1441171223
ISBN-13: 9781441171221
Written for a large constituency of readers of latest literature, A transitority destiny: The Fiction of David Mitchell explores Mitchell's major concerns-including these of id, heritage, language, imperialism, youth, the surroundings, and ethnicity-across the six novels released to this point, in addition to his protean skill to put in writing in a number of and numerous genres. It locations Mitchell within the culture of Murakami, Sebald, and Rushdie-writers whose works discover narrative in an age of globalization and cosmopolitanism.
Patrick O'Donnell strains the through-lines of Mitchell's paintings from ghostwritten to The Bone Clocks and, with a bankruptcy on all of the six novels, charts the evolution of Mitchell's fictional project.