Reassessing the twentieth-century canon : from Joseph Conrad to Zadie Smith

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Reassessing the twentieth-century canon : from Joseph Conrad to Zadie Smith

edited by Nicola Allen and David Simmons

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

  • : hardback

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Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin's Press LLC

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

The collection brings together experts in the field of twentieth-century writing to provide a volume that is both comprehensive and innovative in its discussion of a set of newly canonical texts. The book includes new applications of philosophical and critical thinking to established texts.

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Introduction 1. Snags in the Fairway: Reading Heart of Darkness 2. 'Hasn't got any name': Aesthetics, African Americans and Policemen in The Great Gatsby 3. Urban Spaces, Fragmented Consciousness, and Indecipherable Meaning in Mrs Dalloway 4. D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in the New Century: Literary Canon and Bodily Episteme 5. A Handful Of Dust Realism: Modernism / Irony: Sympathy 6. Studied Ambivalence: The Appalling Strangeness of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock 7. 'Come Down from Your Thinkin' and Listen a Minute': The Multiple Voices of The Grapes of Wrath 8. Faulkner's Go Down, Moses Revisited 9. Time, Space, and Resistance: Re-Reading George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 10. Lucky Jim : The Novel in Unchartered Times 11. Six myths of On the Road , and Where These Might Lead Us 12. 'A Good Old Red, White, and Blue Hundred-per-cent American Con Man': The Importance of Character in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 13. Herzog's Masculine Dilemmas, and the Eclipse of the Transcendental 'I.' 14. Beyond Postmodernism in Alasdair Gray's Lanark 15. Gender Vertigo: Queer Gothic and Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus 16. Whole Families Paranoid at Night: Don DeLillo's White Noise 17. Hooked on Classics: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 25 Years On 18. Remembering and Disremembering Beloved: Lacunae and Hauntings 19. Embracing Uncertainty: Hanif Kureishi's Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album 20. Samad, Hancock, the Suburbs, and Englishness: Re-reading Zadie Smith's White Teeth Bibliography Index

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