Rewriting in the 20th-21st centuries : aesthetic choice or political act? / Estelle Epinoux and Nathalie Martinière, eds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martinière, Nathalie, editor.

Epinoux, Estelle, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intertextuality--Congresses.

Intertextuality.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Congresses.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism--Congresses.

English literature.

English literature--21st century--History and criticism--Congresses.

Arts, Modern--20th century--Congresses.

Arts, Modern.

Arts, Modern--21st century--Congresses.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

248 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

1ère édition.

Place of Publication:

Paris : Michel Houdiard Éditeur, [2015]

Contents:

Part I, "Bracketing the past" - the stakes of rewriting. Mrs. Dalloway's afterlives : from caricature to blank parody / Monica Latham

Post-colonial rewritings : the examples of Peter Carey's Jack Maggs (1997) and Lloyd Jones's Mister Pip (2006) / Isabelle Roblin

Rewriting the restoration : satire, authority and the carnivalesque in Rose Tremain's Restoration and Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the cherry / Emilie Walezak

When a commentary on today's fiction becomes a criticism of contemporary society : the art of rewriting in D.M. Thomas's Charlotte / Fanny Delnieppe

"Dubbing the original" or the ways of 'un-writing' in Jamaica Kincaid's non fiction / Andree-Anne Kekeh-Dika ; Part II, the canon and its impact. At war with the classics : H.D.'s rewritings of Euripides / Bertrand Rouby

Anti-maternal rewritings in Ryder : Djuna Barnes's feminist twist on Chaucer / Amy Wells^^^

^ Kate Atkinson : rewriting the fairy tale's happy ending in Human croquet / Annelle Parey

"Like a rock in the stream" : conflict, facts and fiction in contemporary rewritings of the Great War / Elsa Cavalie

Rewriting the past : Alan Hollinghurst's The stranger's child / Xavier Giudicelli

Re-writing, translating and Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Aedin Ni Loingsigh

Rewriting and original writing : culture clashes, trauma and emerging discourses in Giannina Braschi's United States of banana / Laureano Corces ; Part III, Mirroring Irish history. Rewriting historical trauma : John Montague and Paul Durcan as two figures of the Irish bard / Cathy Roche-Liger

Negotiating the scarred landscape of Ulster : post-conflict photography in Northern Ireland / Valérie Morisson

Writing and rewriting of the Irish rural landscape in Garage (2007) and The fifth province (1997) / Estelle Epinoux^^^

^ Rewriting the Northern Irish political conflict on screen in Divorcing Jack : a parody of the troubles / Cecile Bazin.

Notes:

Contributions to a conference held at the University of Limoges in November 2012.

Contains:

Container of: Latham, Monica. Mrs. Dalloway's afterlives - from caricature to blank parody.

ISBN:

9782356921222

2356921222

OCLC:

933228276