Gebundenes Buch

Generic Instability and Identity in the Contemporary Novel

Beschreibung

Contemporary aesthetics is characterized by generic mixing on the level of both form and content. The barriers between different media and different genres have been broken down in all literary art forms, whether it be theatre, poetry, or the novel.

Autor

Madelena Gonzalez is Professor of English Literature at the University of Avignon. Her latest publications include: Fiction after the Fatwa: Salman Rushdie and the Charm of Catastrophe (2005), Translating Identity and the Identity of Translation (2006) and Theatre des minorites: Mises en scene de la marge a l'epoque contemporaine (2008). She has published widely on contemporary literature and culture and is currently editing a second volume on Minority Theatre, this one in English. Marie Odile Pittin-Hedon is a lecturer in contemporary British literature at Avignon University, France, and specializes in Scottish literature. She has published a monograph, Alasdair Gray: Marges et Effets de Miroirs, in 2004, and chapters on contemporary fiction in The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature (2007) and The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature (2009). She is currently working on a book on twenty-first-century Scottish writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Unabridged ed
• Seitenzahl: 255
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 154mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781443817325
• ISBN-10: 1443817325
• Artikelnr.: 28888907