Reassessing the Twentieth-Century Canon [electronic resource] : From Joseph Conrad to Zadie Smith /
Allen, N.editor.
Simmons, D.editor.
The collection brings together experts in the field of twentieth-century writing to provide a volume that is both comprehensive and innovative in its discussion of a set of newly canonical texts. The book includes new applications of philosophical and critical thinking to established texts.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Snags in the Fairway: Reading Heart of Darkness; 2 ''Hasn''t got any name'': Aesthetics, African Americans and Policemen in The Great Gatsby; 3 Urban Spaces, Fragmented Consciousness, and Indecipherable Meaning in Mrs Dalloway; 4 D. H. Lawrence''s Lady Chatterley''s Lover in the New Century: Literary Canon and Bodily Episteme; 5 A Handful of Dust: Realism: Modernism/Irony: Sympathy; 6 Studied Ambivalence: The Appalling Strangeness of Graham Greene''s Brighton Rock
7 ""Come Down from Your Thinkin'' and Listen a Minute"": The Multiple Voices of The Grapes of Wrath8 Faulkner''s Go Down, Moses Revisited; 9 Time, Space, and Resistance: Re-Reading George Orwell''s Nineteen Eighty-Four; 10 Lucky Jim: The Novel in Unchartered Times; 11 Six Myths of On the Road, and Where These Might Lead Us; 12 ''Hundred-per-Cent American Con Man'': Character in Ken Kesey''s One Flew Over the Cuckoo''s Nest; 13 Herzog''s Masculine Dilemmas, and the Eclipse of the Transcendental ""I.""; 14 Beyond Postmodernism in Alasdair Gray''s Lanark
15 Gender Vertigo: Queer Gothic and Angela Carter''s Nights at the Circus16 Whole Families Paranoid at Night: Don DeLillo''s White Noise; 17 Hooked on Classics: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 25 Years On; 18 Remembering and Disremembering Beloved: Lacunae and Hauntings; 19 Embracing Uncertainty: Hanif Kureishi''s Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album; 20 Samad, Hancock, the Suburbs, and Englishness: Re-reading Zadie Smith''s White Teeth; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The collection brings together experts in the field of twentieth-century writing to provide a volume that is both comprehensive and innovative in its discussion of a set of newly canonical texts. The book includes new applications of philosophical and critical thinking to established texts.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Fiction.
Literature—Philosophy.
America—Literatures.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
North American Literature.