Progressive Intertextual Practice in Modern And Contemporary Literature (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1032578246 ISBN 13: 9781032578248

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

This edited volume aims to reposition intertextuality in relation to recent trends in critical practice. Inspired by the work of Sara Ahmed in particular, our authors explore and reconfigure classic theories of authorship, influence and the text (including those by Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault and Harold Bloom), updating these conversations to include intersectionality specifically, broadly understood to include gendered, racial and other forms of social justice including disability, and the progressive impact of the transmission and transformation of texts. This diverse volume includes discussions of major canonical works such as James Joyce’s Ulysses alongside the recent contemporary literature by authors such as Siri Husvedt and Maggie O’Farrell, as well as theoretical interventions. This volume also engages with how intertextuality can facilitate interdisciplinary and ekphrastic thinking and representation, as the inspiration of music and the visual arts for texts and their transmission is addressed. The choice of intertexts become deliberately political, ethical and artistic signifiers for the authors discussed in this volume, and our contributors are thus enabled to address topics ranging from visual impairment to Shakespearean motherhood to the influence of Jazz culture on writing on the Northern Irish Troubles.

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About the Author

Katherine Ebury is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield.

Christin M. Mulligan is Adjunct Professor at Saint Joseph's University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032578246
• ISBN 13: 9781032578248
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Ebury Katherine, Mulligan Christin M.