Epistolarity and world literature, 1980-2010

• 作者： Bower, Rachel, author.
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• 其他題名：
  • New comparisons in world literature.
• 出版： Cham : Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： New comparisons in world literature
• 主題： Epistolary fiction--History and criticism--20th century. , Epistolary fiction--History and criticism--21st century. , Literature. , Postcolonial/World Literature. , Comparative Literature. , Twentieth-Century Literature.
• ISBN： 9783319581668 (electronic bk.) 、 9783319581651 (paper)
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• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Prison Letters and Epistolary Encryption: John Berger's From A to X (2008) -- Chapter Two: Searching for Letters in the Archive: Amitav Ghosh's In An Antique Land (1992) and Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion (1987) -- Chapter Three: Writing to the Future: J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron (1990) -- Chapter Four: The Limits of the Letter: Alice Walker's The Color Purple (1982) -- Chapter Five: Crossing the seven seas: transnational and cross-linguistic dialogue in Monica Ali's Brick Lane (2003) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.
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• 摘要註: 'This book, like the literary letters it examines, is intelligently attuned to the intimate to-and-fro between author and reader, in particular what happens when this dialogue takes place across fraught historical and political lines. Addressing why novelists from across the world returned to the epistolary form at the end of the long twentieth century, Bower closely analyses an impressive range of authors to show how and why words travel from I to you.' -- Dr Jonathan Ellis, Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield, UK 'This lucid and original book explores the relationships between the epistolary novel, the world and postcolonial literature with a keen, critical eye and a nuanced concern for the material productions of texts, focusing on detailed readings as well as a wider global background. In doing so, Bower both reviews and reforms part of the field, and so this book should be read by those with an interest in the contemporary novel, postcolonialism and literary theory more generally.' -- Professor Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway University of London, UK This book examines the striking resurgence of the literary letter at the end of the long twentieth century. It explores how authors returned to epistolary conventions to create dialogue across national, linguistic and cultural borders and repositions a range of contemporary and postcolonial authors never considered together before, including Monica Ali, John Berger, Amitav Ghosh, Michael Ondaatje and Alice Walker. Through a series of situated readings, the book shows how the return to epistolarity is underpinned by ideals relating to dialogue and human connection. Several of the works use letters to present non-anglophone material to the anglophone reader. Others use letters to challenge policed borders: the prison, occupied territory, the nation state. Elsewhere, letters are used to connect correspondents in different cultural and linguistic contexts. Common to all of the works considered in this book i
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