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Behind the mask : a study of Ben Okri's fiction
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ISBN: 8843024078 Year: 2002 Publisher: Roma : Carocci,

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A poet, a playwright and an essayist, Ben Okri is also - and primarily - an accomplished novelist and short-story writer, whose production is imbued with paradigms and themes relevant to the contemporary literary panorama. A distinctive trait of his fiction is the centrality of meta-artistic issues. The tropes of heroism and the rich intertextuality of his works, bear evidence of his reflection on the functions and the expressive methods of art. Against modern scepticism, he revalues a multicultural tradition of artistic commitment that, in his view, can counteract the dissolution of sense, identity and spirituality. Okri´s works question some theoretical hallmarks of mainstream criticism, and demand new critical approaches. This need is acknowledged by Mariaconcetta Costantini, who explores hidden meanings of his texts by examining a recurrent paradigm: the "mask". To understand Okri´s idea of "masking" is equivalente to finding a key to his narrative project, whose main goal is to revive the artist´s sense of responsibility against the fictions of contemporary life.

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Rethinking Identities Across Boundaries : Genders/Genres/Genera
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ISBN: 3031407954 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This collection of essays aims to widen the current critique on borders by examining their entanglements with constructions of identity and disciplinary categories. In particular, it calls into question established models of gender, notions of narrative genres and typological genera of borders in today’s literary, artistic, philosophical, and socio-political discourse. The chapters interrogate boundaries and boundary-crossing not only in terms of geographical frontiers and the physical acts of trespassing, but also as discursive constructs that police crossing subjects as gendered subjects, on the one hand, and identify artistic genres and academic disciplines as fixed, sealed-in ways of understanding the world, on the other. Taking inspiration from the multiple meanings of the Italian word genere (which stands for “gender”, “genre”, and “typology”/“genus” simultaneously), the volume reflects on the gendered, narrative, and typological nature of borders and border imagery, and on the significance and potentialities of crossover phenomena taking place in borderlands, in the fields of arts, literature, anthropology, sociology and philosophy. Claudia Capancioni is Reader in English Literature at Bishop Grosseteste University, UK. She specialises in Victorian and contemporary women writers, life and travel writing, and gender studies. Mariaconcetta Costantini is Full Professor of English Literature at G. d’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. She specialises in Victorian and contemporary literature, especially in popular fiction, women writers, and the Gothic. Mara Mattoscio teaches English Literature and Culture at the University of Macerata, Italy. She specialises in Anglophone postcolonial literature and film, race and gender studies, and critical theory.


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Rethinking Identities Across Boundaries : Genders/Genres/Genera
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ISBN: 9783031407956 9783031407949 9783031407963 9783031407970 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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Sherlock Holmes, un nouveau limier pour le XXIe siècle : Du Strand Magazine au Sherlock de la BBC
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ISSN: 01545604 ISBN: 9782753551442 2753551448 275355787X Year: 2018 Publisher: Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes,

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La popularité actuelle de Sherlock Holmes, son importance dans notre paysage, posent la question de savoir pourquoi il est, plus que jamais, notre contemporain. Notre société, plus victorienne qu’il n’y paraît, voit monter un certain nombre d’angoisses et d’inquiétudes urbaines – économiques, sociales, médicales – qui ravivent du même coup le paradigme d’un enquêteur quasi infaillible, capable de résoudre, avec rapidité, élégance et brio des énigmes pourtant retorses, défiant les compétences de la police officielle. Un retour au texte de Conan Doyle montre pourtant que ce paradigme est instable, que le détective est capable de toutes les métamorphoses et de tous les déguisements. Le fait que la série de la BBC Sherlock transpose aujourd’hui avec une aisance ludique l’univers créé par Conan Doyle dans le Strand Magazine à la fin des années 1880 illustre la foncière plasticité et adaptabilité de la figure du célèbre détective, jusque dans le monde des téléphones portables et d’Internet qui est le nôtre. Les actes du colloque international « Sherlock Holmes : un nouveau limier pour le XXIe siècle » tenu à Cerisy-la-Salle en 2014 remontent aux sources mêmes du mythe littéraire pour suivre les évolutions subies par ce couple éminemment malléable qu’est le duo formé par Sherlock Holmes et le Dr Watson. Des premières adaptations pour l’écran muet, réalisées du vivant même de l’auteur, jusqu’aux séries télévisées actuelles, entre réécritures et pastiches qui passent par le cinéma, la BD, et la littérature, les auteurs ici réunis traquent les formes esthétiques et les supports divers qui ont porté l’image protéiforme du détective et de son acolyte jusqu’à nous, creusant le personnage aux attributs si reconnaissables pour mieux en dégager la profondeur. Venu à nous « d’un Londres de gaz et de bruine », Sherlock Holmes est bien, selon Borges, « une de ces bonnes manies qui nous restent ».

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