The Writer Written: The Artist and Creation in the New Literatures in English - Couverture rigide

Pierre Durix, Jean

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0313258945 ISBN 13 : 9780313258947

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1987

Synopsis

Few people are so widely read within Commonwealth literature or are so knowledgeable about so many different cultures as Jean-Pierre Durix. . . . The first part of the book deals with general, theoretical themes (e.g., the writer as teacher), while the second contains studies of single novels by such writers as Patrick White, C.K. Stead, and Salmon Rushdie; here Durix is at his best. Choice

Exploring the relationship between the writer and his craft, between the artist and society, between the creator and his conception of creation, this fascinating study takes up various key positions represented by major writers from Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, New Zealand, and the South Pacific, and examines the practice of literature, which is frequently concerned with a search for problematic roots and authenticity in its relation with didacticism, social concern, language and myth. The distinctively comparative approach brings together a series of close textual studies and examines four examples of metafiction from which emerge a number of specific features characteristic of literatures born out of Colonialism and its aftermath. Seen in this perspective, literary scholarship provides an irreplaceable point of view from which to assess the role of the imagination in multi-cultural societies.

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À propos de l'auteur

JEAN-PIERRE DURIX is Senior Lecturer in the English Department at The University of Dijon, France.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0313258945
• ISBN 13: 9780313258947
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 177
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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