Postmodernism Literature

This book studies how conceptions of postmodern space have transformed the history of the impossible in literature. This book conceptualizes and contextualizes the postmodern, fantastic use of space that disrupts the reader’s comfortable notion of space as objective reality in favor of the concept o..

This book studies how conceptions of postmodern space have transformed the history of the impossible in literature. This book conceptualizes and contextualizes the postmodern, fantastic use of space that disrupts the reader’s comfortable notion of space as objective reality in favor of the concept o..

This collection of essays offers a series of reflections on the specific literary and cultural forms that can be seen as the product of modernity’s spatial transformations, which have taken on new urgency in today’s world of ever increasing mobility and global networks. The book offers a broad persp..

_x005F_x000D_ Surrealism and the Gothic argues for the determinative influence of the gothic – of the gothic novel itself and of ideas strongly associated with the gothic (insanity, incarceration, the ‘accursed outsider’, magic, etc.) – upon both the formation and subsequent direction of the surreal..

Combining historical and cultural methods of analysis with sophisticated theoretical discussions, Natalya Lusty explores how women artists and intellectuals responded to the appropriation of 'the feminine' in Surrealism and psychoanalysis. Reading work by Leonora Carrington, Claude Cahun, Joan Rivie..

Combining historical and cultural methods of analysis with sophisticated theoretical discussions, Natalya Lusty explores how women artists and intellectuals responded to the appropriation of 'the feminine' in Surrealism and psychoanalysis. Reading work by Leonora Carrington, Claude Cahun, Joan Rivie..

The Art of Ana Clavel..

This book examines early British film and film culture as a substantial context for the emergence of modernism in literature. The study considers Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Yeats, and Eliot, and treats literary modernism as a consequence of cinema’s new accounts of language, time, collectivity, and the s..

At a juncture in which art and culture are saturated with the forces of commodification, this book argues that problems, forms, and positions that defined modernism are relevant to the condition of contemporary art and culture. Essays revise our understanding of what modernism was in its earlier ins..

At a juncture in which art and culture are saturated with the forces of commodification, this book argues that problems, forms, and positions that defined modernism are relevant to the condition of contemporary art and culture. Essays revise our understanding of what modernism was in its earlier ins..

This book offers a socio-historic and ecocritical reading of Don DeLillo’s novels, arguing that the emphasis on place in DeLillo’s work distinguishes him from other postmodern writers and demonstrates the environmental significance of his fiction...

This book explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past, demonstrating how histories can communicate across national borders, often by invoking or deconstructing the very notion of nationhood. It traces how concerns of the postmodern..