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Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives
The concept of 'wilderness' as a foundational idea for environmentalist thought has become the subject of vigorous debates. Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives offers a taxonomy of the forms that wilderness writing has taken in Australian and Canadian literature, re-emphasizing both country's origins as colonies.
The Ethical Foundations of Postmodernity
A (re-)turn to ethics, which began in the 1980s and 1990s and is still predominant today, has been ascribed to literary studies and theory. In this book theoretical issues within ethics are discussed based on the examples of literary analyses. The authors examined are Margaret Atwood, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Robert M. Pirsig. The main questions concern the foundation on which ethical concepts are based, and the way in which such concepts function. These topics are evidently connected to matters of human concepts and human nature in general, which are understood to be fundamentally communicative. Contrary to popular conclusions of relativity, the need for a realist foundation of ethics - imply...
New York and Toronto Novels after Postmodernism
Cities are material and symbolic spaces through which nations define their cultural identities. The great cities that have arisen on the North American continent have stimulated the imaginations of the United States and Canada in very different ways. This first comparative study of North American urban fiction starts out by delineating the sociohistorical and literary contexts in which cities grew into diverging symbolic spaces in American and Canadian culture. After an overview of recent developments in the cultural conception of urban space, the book takes New York and Toronto fiction as exemplary for exploring representations of the urban after postmodernism. It analyzes four twenty-first...
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Margaret Atwood
Authors Shannon Hengen and Ashley Thomson have assembled a reference guide that covers all of the works written by the acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood since 1988, including her novels Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, and the 2000 Booker Prize winner, The Blind Assassin. Rather than just including Atwood's books, this guide includes all of Atwood's works, including articles, short stories, letters, and individual poetry. Adaptations of Atwood's works are also included, as are some of her more public quotations. Secondary entries (i.e. interviews, scholarly resources, and reviews) are first sorted by type, and then arranged alphabetically by author, to allow greater ease of ...
The Openess of Myth
In ihrer in englischer Sprache verfassten Arbeit The Openness of Myth: The Arthurian Legend in the Middle Ages and Today wird unter Anwendung moderner literaturtheoretischer Ansätze ein Erklärungsmodell für die Schwankungen in der Popularität von Mythen am Beispiel mittelalterlicher und moderner Artusliteratur entwickelt. Bei der Einteilung der postulierten "Offenheit" des Stoffes in historische, kulturelle, inter-textuelle und text-inhärente Aspekte steht vor allem der Prozess der Überlieferung unter kulturhistorischen Gesichtspunkten im Mittelpunkt. Als Beispiele wurden Malorys mittelalterlicher Prosaroman Le Morte Darthur' der moderne britische Roman Sword at Sunset von Rosemary Sutcliff und der US-amerikanische Roman Arthur Rex von Thomas Berger gewählt.
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