Refracting the canon in contemporary British literature and film / edited by Susana Onega and Christian Gutleben.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Onega, Susana.

Gutleben, Christian.

Series:

Postmodern studies ; 35.

Postmodern studies ; 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British literature--20th century--History and criticism.

British literature.

Motion pictures--Great Britain--History.

Motion pictures.

Great Britain.

History.

Intertextuality.

Physical Description:

261 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2004.

Contents:

1. Clock-ridden Births: Creative Bastardy in Sterne's Tristram Shandy Rushdie's Midnight's Children / Catherine Pesso-Miquel 17

2. Double Refraction: Rewriting the Canon in Contemporary Scottish Literature / Dietmar Boehnke 53

3. Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction / John A. Stotesbury 69

4. Dr Jekyll and Mr Jackass: Fight Club as a Refraction of Hogg's Justified Sinner and Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Kirsten Stirling 83

5. Return to Austen: Film Heroines of the Nineties / Celestino Deleyto Alcala 95

6. Dickens and Post-Victorian Fiction / Georges Letissier 111

7. Parody as Revisionary Critique: Charles Palliser's The Quincunx / J. Hillis Miller 129

8. Refracting the Past in Praise of the Dead Poets in Possession: A Romance / Margarida Esteves Pereira 149

9. Hearts Object: Jeanette Winterson and the Ethics of Absolutist Romance / Jean-Michel Ganteau 165

10. Between Othello and Equiano: Caryl Phillips' Subversive Rewritings / Fernando Galvan 187

11. Challenging Shakespeare: Strategies of Writing Back in Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Caryl Phillips' The Nature of Blood / Petra Tournay 207

12. To Hamlet and back with Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones (2001) / Nicole Boireau 231.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9042010509

OCLC:

55682739