Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (218 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0231136749
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0231510071
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9780231136747
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9780231510073
Inhalt:
"In these essays, many of them originally written for The New Republic and Harper's, Robert Boyers examines the role of the political imagination in shaping the works of such important contemporary writers as W.G. Sebald and Philip Roth, Nadine Gordimer and Mario Vargas Llosa, Natalia Ginzburg and Pat Barker, J.M. Coetzee and John Updike, V.S. Naipaul and Anita Desai. Occasionally he finds that politics actually figures very little in works that only pretend to be interested in politics. Elsewhere he discovers that certain writers are not equal to the political issues they take on or that their work is fatally compromised by complacency or wishful thinking."--Jacket
Inhalt:
The indigenous berserk : Philip Roth -- Identity and diffidence : Seamus Deane -- A generous mind : Natalia Ginzburg -- Clear light and shadow : Anita Desai -- Bullets of milk : John Updike -- Politics and postmodernism : Mario Vargas Llosa -- In exile from exile : Norman Manea -- The normality blues : Peter Schneider -- Discipline and punish : Fleur Jaeggy -- Primacies and politics : Nadine Gordimer -- Thinking about evil : Kafka, Naipaul, Coetzee -- Pathos and resignation : Pat Barker -- Stiflings : László Krasznahorkai -- The dictator's dictation : Augusto Roa Bastos -- Many types of ambiguity : Ingeborg Bachmann -- Rubble and ice : W.G. Sebald
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218)
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Boyers, Robert Dictator's dictation New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005
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Englisch
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