Boyers The Dictator's Dictation

The Politics of Novels and Novelists
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-231-51007-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Boyers, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Thinking About Politics and the Novel
1. The Indigenous Berserk: Philip Roth
2. Identity and Diffidence: Seamus Deane
3. A Generous Mind: Natalia Ginzburg
4. Clear Light and Shadow: Anita Desai
5. Bullets of Milk: John Updike
6. Politics and Postmodernism: Mario Vargas Llosa
7. In Exile from Exile: Norman Manea
8. The Normality Blues: Peter Schneider
9. Discipline and Punish: Fleur Jaeggy
10. Primacies and Politics: Nadine Gordimer
11. Thinking About Evil: Kafka, Naipaul, Coetzee
12. Pathos and Resignation: Pat Barker
13. Stiflings: László Krasnahorkai
14. The Dictator's Dictation: Augusto Roa Bastos
15. Many Types of Ambiguity: Ingeborg Bachmann
16. Rubble and Ice: W. G. Sebald
Selected Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Boyers is Tisch Professor of Arts and Letters at Skidmore College, editor of Salmagundi, and director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute. He is the author of eight previous books, including Atrocity and Amnesia: The Political Novel Since 1945, and a book of stories, Excitable Women, Damaged Men. Boyers is also a frequent contributor to Harper's, The New Republic, and other journals.