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  1. Imagination and the contemporary novel
    Author: Su, John J.
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781139081023
    Subjects: Roman; Postkoloniale Literatur; Fantasie <Motiv>; Englisch
    Scope: X, 219 S.
  2. Imagination and the contemporary novel
    Author: Su, John J
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 9781139081023
    Subjects: Englisch; Postkoloniale Literatur; Roman; Fantasie <Motiv>; Geschichte 1070-2010
    Scope: X, 219 S.
  3. Imagination and the Contemporary Novel.
    Author: Su, John J
    Published: 2011; ©2011.
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    A comparative study of the imagination in literature from the Anglophone world. Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction: globalization, imagination, and the novel -- The... more

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    A comparative study of the imagination in literature from the Anglophone world. Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction: globalization, imagination, and the novel -- The epistemology of the imagination -- Aesthetics and utopia -- The imagination and the novel -- CHAPTER 2 Aesthetic revolutions: white South African writing and the State of Emergency -- André Brink: imagining the real -- Nadine Gordimer: imagined revolutions -- J. M. Coetzee: the sympathetic imagination -- CHAPTER 3 The pastoral and the postmodern -- John Fowles: realism in a late capitalist world -- Peter Ackroyd: latent histories of the pastoral -- Julian Barnes: pastoral histories -- CHAPTER 4 Hybridity, enterprise culture, and the fiction of multicultural Britain -- The rise of hybridity -- Rushdie's return to roots -- Performing identity in Kureishi -- The ends of hybridity -- CHAPTER 5 Ghosts of essentialism: racial memory as epistemological claim -- Racial memory as knowledge claim -- Essential knowledge -- The burden of the blood -- CHAPTER 6 Amitav Ghosh and the aesthetic turn in postcolonial studies -- Aesthetics spaces and identification -- Utopias positive and negative -- The horizon of collective imagination -- The ends of the aesthetic -- Conclusion: imagining together? -- Notes -- Preface and acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: globalization, imagination, and the novel -- 2 Aesthetic revolutions: white South African writing and the State of Emergency -- 3 The pastoral and the postmodern -- 4 Hybridity, enterprise culture, and the fiction of multicultural Britain -- 5 Ghosts of essentialism: racial memory as epistemological claim -- 6 Amitav Ghosh and the aesthetic turn in postcolonial studies -- Conclusion: imagining together? -- Bibliography -- Index.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781139081023
    Subjects: Postcolonialism in literature; English fiction; Literature and globalization; Imagination in literature; English fiction; English fiction; English fiction ; 20th century ; History and criticism; English fiction ; 21st century ; History and criticism; English fiction ; English-speaking countries ; History and criticism; Imagination in literature; Literature and globalization; Postcolonialism in literature; Electronic books
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    Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: globalization, imagination, and the novel; 2. Aesthetic revolutions: white South African writing and the state of emergency; 3. The pastoral and the postmodern; 4. Hybridity, enterprise culture, and the fiction of multicultural Britain; 5. Ghosts of essentialism: racial memory as epistemological claim; 6. Amitav Ghosh and the aesthetic turn in postcolonial studies; Conclusion; Works cited.