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Aliki Varvogli, Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction.
Get PDFTravel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction by Aliki Varvogli is the latest addition in the Routledge “Transnational Perspectives on American Literature” series. The writer’s ambitions to trace latest writing trends in American letters and update concerns about narratives of immigration in a post-Nelson Mandela era are expressed from the onset. Within the context of travel narratives and theories of dislocation, the book manages to show how the idea of the American in American let..
"The Worst Possibilities of the Imagination are the Country You Live In":Paul Auster in the Twenty-First Century
No full text"The Invention of Illusions: International Perspectives on Paul Auster" is a collection of essays on Auster's recent novels and films. Following the example of "Beyond the Red Notebook" (1995), Stefania Ciocia and Jesus A. Gonzalez have assembled an international group of scholars to provide a rich and insightful examination of Auster's twenty-first-century output and draw connections between the author's early and later production. Adopting various (inter)disciplinary approaches, the contributors - Michelle Banks, Alan Bilton, Mark Brown, Stefania Ciocia, Anita Durkin, Ginevra Geraci, Jesus A. Gonzalez, Francois Hugonnier, Ulrich Meurer, James Peacock, Paolo Simonetti, and Aliki Varvogli - contextualize Auster's position not only in the American canon, but also on the global artistic scene. This volume invites us to take another look at Auster as an inventor of illusions in the most positive sense of the word: not as short-lived, deceitful gimmickry, but rather as an imaginative testing of possibilities, a wilful establishment of real bonds between people, even when these bonds are rooted in the world of storytelling. "The Invention of Illusions: International Perspectives on Paul Auster" will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary literature as well as the general reader willing to learn more about Paul Auster's world
Approaches to Contemporary American Literature [General editor of book series with Aliki Varvogli]
No full textApproaches to Contemporary American Literature [General editor of book series with Aliki Varvogli]
No full textNew Avenues in Paul Auster’s Twenty-First Century Work
No full textNew Avenues in Paul Auster’s Twenty-First Century Work gathers seven articles written by critics of Auster’s work: I. B. Siegumfeldt, Ilana Shiloh, Priyanka Deshmukh, François Hugonnier, Antoine Dechêne, Aliki Varvogli and Jesper Præst Nielsen, offer new perspectives on Auster’s work by exploring the synthesis of content and form, rhythm, tone and emotion, the interconnection between literature and politics, the parity between true and false. Auster’s latest book, 4 3 2 1 (Henry Holt, 2017; Actes Sud, 2018) harbors the majority of the new trends on which we focus. Therefore, each contributor has related their study, in one way or another, to this mastodon novel. Paul Auster kindly agreed to comment on aspects of the articles published in this LISA e-journal issue in an interview with I. B. Siegumfeldt and François Hugonnier which took place at his house in Brooklyn, 14th November 2019. Voies/voix d’aujourd’hui dans l’œuvre de Paul Auster rassemble sept articles écrits par des critiques de l’œuvre d’Auster : I. B. Siegumfeldt, Ilana Shiloh, Priyanka Deshmukh, François Hugonnier, Antoine Dechêne, Aliki Varvogli et Jesper Præst Nielsen proposent de nouvelles perspectives sur l’œuvre de Paul Auster en explorant la synthèse du fond et de la forme, le rythme, le ton et l’émotion, l’interconnexion entre littérature et politique, la parité entre le vrai et le faux. Le dernier ouvrage de Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1 (Actes Sud, 2018), présente la majorité des thèmes sur lesquels porte notre analyse. Chaque contributeur a, par conséquent, relié son étude, d’une façon ou d’une autre, à ce roman mastodonte. Paul Auster a gentiment accepté de commenter certains aspects des articles de ce numéro de la Revue LISA lors d’un entretien avec I. B. Siegumfeldt et François Hugonnier, qui s’est déroulé chez lui à Brooklyn le 14 novembre 2019
The Inscription of Terrorism:Philip Roth's American Pastoral
No full textDrawing on interviews and essays in which Roth has discussed how he perceives his place in literature and in society, the author argues that American Pastoral highlights the affinity between the writer and the terrorist as creative and destructive agents of change. By paying close attention to the book's formal complexities, the author concludes that Zuckerman's seeming identification with Seymour Levov is deceptive, and the narrator is idealogically more understanding of the terrorist daughter than he is of her "depthless" father
Ailing Authors:Paul Auster's Travels in the Scriptorium and Philip Roth's Exit Ghost
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Urban Mobility and Race:Dinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and Teju Cole's Open City
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