Rewriting in the 20th-21st centuries

aesthetic choice or political act?

Rewriting in the 20th-21st centuries
Estelle Epinoux, Nathalie Mart ...
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Rewriting in the 20th-21st centuries

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M. Houdiard
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248

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Collected essays.

Published in
Paris

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Dewey Decimal Class
820
Library of Congress
PR

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Pagination
248 pages
Number of pages
248

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL62046392M
ISBN 10
2356921222
ISBN 13
9782356921222
OCLC/WorldCat
933228276

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OL45554269W

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