In the Reading Gaol: Postmodernity, Texts, and History

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In this critical tour de force , Valentine Cunningham offers a sequence of controversial arguments in favour of the worldly stuff of texts, a commodity that he sees to be still too commonly discredited, down-played and repressed by post-modernist theory and practice. In the course of its critique this books inspects, with startling originality, texts from the Bible to Jane Eyre, Hamlet to Batman (the movie), Tristram Shandy to Finnegan's Wake, concentrating particularly on classic nineteenth-century realist novels such as Emma, Hard Times, Bleak House, Middlemarch, The Trumpet Major and Heart of Darkness , as well as classic twentieth-century novels, including Beckett's Watt and Golding's Rites of Passage .

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0631151982

ISBN13:9780631151982

Release Date:February 1994

Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell

Length:424 Pages

Related Subjects

Humanities Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Postmodernism

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