Literary landscapes
Subtitle: from modernism to postmodernism
By: edited by Attie de Lange, Gail Fincham, Jeremy Hawthorn and Jakob Lothe.
Contributors: De Lange, Attie.; Fincham, Gail.; Hawthorn, Jeremy.; Lothe, Jakob.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780230553163
Subjects: Place (Philosophy) in literature; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; South African fiction (English) -- History and criticism; Commonwealth fiction (English) -- History and criticism; Space in literature; Space and time in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Modernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries; Postmodernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries
Description: "Literary Landscapes challenges the popular view that fictional representations of place and space by modernist authors have little or nothing in common with those of postcolonial writers."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Space, time, narrative: from Thomas Hardy to Franz Kafka and J. M. Coetzee / Jakob Lothe; title: The American spaces of Henry James / Merle A. Williams; title: Space and place in the novels of E.M. Forster / Gail Fincham; title: Travel as incarceration: Jean Rhys's After leaving Mr. MacKenzie / Jeremy Hawthorn; title: "Where am I"?: feminine space and time in Virginia Woolf's The years / Merry M. Pawlowski; title: Imagining the karoo landscape: free indirect discourse, the sublime, and the consecration of white poverty / Johan Geertsema; title: Reading and constructing space, gender and race: Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim and J. M. Coetzee's Foe / A. M. de Lange; title: Remains of the name / Carrol Clarkson; title: Houses, cellars and caves in selected novels from Latin America and South Africa / Marita Wenzel; title: Transformation of ordinary places into imaginative space in Zakes Mda's writing / Ina Gräbe; title: No-man's land: Nuruddin Farah's links and the space of postcolonial alienation / Harry Garuba; title: Changing spaces: Salman Rushdie's mapping of post-colonial territories / Frederik Tygstrup.