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Examining the challenges faced by novelists writing realist fiction in the age of climate change, this open access book considers the various ways in which contemporary writers have evolved new and transformed modes of realism to grapple with the problems of living on an endangered planet. Focusing on fiction set in the long present a term used to cover the actual present, the near future and an historic past that interacts with the present Thieme argues that long-present realism negates the possibility of deferring engagement with the climate crisis on the grounds that it is a future threat. Thieme examines work by twelve novelists: Margaret Atwood, James Bradley, Amitav Ghosh, Helon Habila, Liz Jensen, Barbara Kingsolver, Ian McEwan, Richard Powers, Annie Proulx, Indra Sinha, Antii Tuomainen and Wu Ming-Yi. He provides important new insights into the methods these writers use to convey the urgency of the climate crisis and how their work can inform our understandings of the Anthropocene activity that endangers life on Earth. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

Environmental education. --- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers --- Literary studies: from c 1900 --- -Literary studies: post-colonial literature

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Exploring the poetic fictions of prominent French, feminist writer Hélène Cixous, this open access book highlights rich and timely ideas of selfhood in her work. With careful elaboration of the writer's relationship with Algeria, Birgit M. Kaiser shows how Cixous reflects on experiences of colonial and patriarchal othering. More than that, she crafts a voice - an autofictive "I" - that takes the figure of Echo as a guiding mythology to portray selfhood as diffractive, always already exceeding binary models of self/other that remain central to conceptions of subjectivity. Putting forward the notion of 'echology', Kaiser examines how Cixous performs selfhood within ecologies of cohabitation, thereby critiquing and revising key tenets of psychoanalysis and its narrative of the subject. Drawing from famous texts such as The Laugh of the Medusa, The Newly Born Woman, and The Portrait of Dora, but also more recent titles like Osnabrück, So Close, Death Shall be Dethroned or Cixous's collaborations with Adel Abdessemed, Hélène Cixous's Poetics of Voice: Echo - Subjectivity - Diffraction offers fresh variations on familiar psychoanalytic and semiotic axes, and new ventures into dialogue with feminist new materialisms. Elegant, politically dynamic and providing exciting news ways into Cixous's work and poetics, the concept of 'echology' lends new perspectives for feminist and postcolonial formations of selfhood and new imaginations of what it means to be human within planetary life. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Utrecht University.

Literary criticism --- Self in literature. --- Subjectivity in literature --- Literary studies: fiction;novelists & prose writers --- Literary studies: post-colonial literature --- Literary theory --- Cixous, Hélène,

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"The period since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 has seen a sustained decrease in violence and, at the same time, Northern Ireland has undergone a literary renaissance, with a fresh generation of writers exploring innovative literary forms. This book explores contemporary Northern Irish fiction and how the 'post'-conflict period has led writers to a renewed engagement with intimacy and intimate life. Magennis draws on affect and feminist theory to examine depictions of intimacy, pleasure and the body in their writings and shows how intimate life in Northern Ireland is being reshaped and re-written. Featuring short reflective pieces from some of today's most compelling Northern Irish Writers, including Lucy Caldwell, Jan Carson, Bernie McGill and David Park, this book provides authoritative insights into how a contemporary engagement with intimacy provides us with new ways to understand Northern Irish identity, selfhood and community."--

English literature. --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Northern Ireland --- English literature --- Literary studies: from c 1900 -,Literary studies: post-colonial literature,British & Irish history --- In literature. --- History --- History and cricitism. --- Northern Irish authors --- History and criticism.

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R.K. Narayan's reputation as one of the founding figures of Indian writing in English is re-examined in this comprehensive study of his fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels. Arguing against views that have seen Narayan as a chronicler of "authentic" Indianness, John Thieme locates his fiction in terms of its specific South Indian contexts and cultural geography and its non-Indian intertexts. The study also considers the effect that Narayan's writing for overseas publication had on novels such as Swami and Friends, The Guide and The Man-Eater of Malgudi.Narayan's imaginary

National characteristics, East Indian, in literature. --- Malgudi (India : Imaginary place) --- Imaginary places --- Narayan, R. K., --- Nārāyaṇa, R. K., --- Narayanswami, Rasipuram Krishnaswami --- Narayana Swami, Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer, --- Naraĭan, Razipuram Krishnasvami, --- Naraĭan, R. K. --- Narayansawami, Rasipuram Krishnaswamier, --- Nārāyaṇ, Ār. Kē., --- נאראיאן, ר.ק., --- נראיאן, ר. ק., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- India --- In literature. --- Malgudi (India : Imaginary place). --- Literature --- Literary Studies: Post-Colonial Literature --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic --- Indian writing. --- Indianness. --- Malgudi. --- R. K. Narayan. --- cultural geography. --- fiction. --- founding figures. --- inescapability of change. --- modernity. --- non-Indian intertexts.

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This collection brings together for the first time literary studies of British colonies in nineteenth-century Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific Islands. Drawing on hemispheric studies, Indigenous studies, and southern theory to decentre British and other European metropoles, the collection offers a groundbreaking challenge to national paradigms and traditional literary periodisations and canons by prioritising southern cultural networks in multiple regional centres from Cape Town to Dunedin. Worlding the South examines the dialectics of literary worldedness in ways that recognise inequalities of power, textual and material violence, and literary and cultural resistance. The collection revises current literary histories of the 'British world' by arguing for the distinctiveness of settler colonialism in the southern hemisphere, and by incorporating Indigenous, diasporic, and south-south perspectives. "This collection brings together for the first time literary studies of British colonies in nineteenth-century Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America, Southeast Asia and the South Pacific Islands. Drawing on hemispheric studies, Indigenous studies and southern theory to decentre British and other European metropoles, the collection offers a groundbreaking challenge to national paradigms and traditional literary periodisations and canons by proposing a new literary history of the region that is predicated less on metropolitan turning points and more on southern cultural networks in multiple regional centres from Cape Town to Dunedin. With a focus on south-south interactions, southern audiences and southern modes of addressivity Worlding the South foregrounds marginal, minor and neglected writers and texts across a hemispheric complex of southern oceans and terrains. Adopting an ontological tradition that tests the dominance of networked theories of globalisation, the collection asks how we can better understand the dialectical relationship between the 'real' world in which a literary text or art object exists and the symbolic or conceptual world it shows or creates. By examining the literary processes of worlding, it demonstrates how art objects make legible homogenising imperial and colonial narratives, inequalities of linguistic power, textual and material violence and literary and cultural resistance. With contributions from leading scholars in nineteenth-century literary and cultural studies, the collection revises literary histories of the 'British world' by arguing for the distinctiveness of settler colonialism in the southern hemisphere and by incorporating Indigenous, diasporic and south-south perspectives." -- Back cover.

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 --- Literary studies: post-colonial literature --- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers --- southern hemisphere; nineteenth-century literature; settler colonialism; Romantic studies; Victorian studies; Indigenous studies; world literature; New Zealand; Australia; South Africa --- Literature --- Colonies in literature --- Books and reading --- Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900 --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Colonialism --- Colonialists --- Modern --- Southern Hemisphere --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Hemisphere, Southern --- Earth (Planet) --- Literature, Modern --- Colonies in literature. --- Colonists --- History and criticism. --- History