Progressive Intertextual Practice in Modern And Contemporary Literature

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-57824-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

This edited volume aims to reposition intertextuality in relation to recent trends in critical practice. Inspired by the work of Sara Ahmed in particular, our authors explore and reconfigure classic theories of authorship, influence and the text (including those by Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault and Harold Bloom), updating these conversations to include intersectionality specifically, broadly understood to include gendered, racial and other forms of social justice including disability, and the progressive impact of the transmission and transformation of texts. This diverse volume includes discussions of major canonical works such as James Joyce’s Ulysses alongside the recent contemporary literature by authors such as Siri Husvedt and Maggie O’Farrell, as well as theoretical interventions. This volume also engages with how intertextuality can facilitate interdisciplinary and ekphrastic thinking and representation, as the inspiration of music and the visual arts for texts and their transmission is addressed. The choice of intertexts become deliberately political, ethical and artistic signifiers for the authors discussed in this volume, and our contributors are thus enabled to address topics ranging from visual impairment to Shakespearean motherhood to the influence of Jazz culture on writing on the Northern Irish Troubles.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ebury, Katherine

Mulligan, Christin M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: New Metaphors for Progressive Intertextuality

1. Authorship, the ‘mezzanine’, and the intercession of meaning: a metaphysics of the creative writing process

Philip Miles

2. De-disciplining criticism: refiguring reading as a mode of response-ability

Ruth Daly



Part II: Progressive Intertextuality & Inclusivity

3. The Blind as Seen Through Blind Eyes: An Intertextual Approach to Visual Impairment in James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922)

Cleo Hanaway-Oakley

4. Grotesque Mat(t)er: Materiality and Matrilineality in Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet (2020)

Orlagh Woods



Part III: Progressive Intertextuality & Interdisciplinarity

5. “Yardbird Suite”: Jazz, Double Consciousness, and the Reverberations of the Harlem Renaissance in Stewart Parker’s Pentecost (1987)

Matthew Fogarty

6. Novel Art: The Contemporary Turn Towards Ekphrasis

Monika Gehlawat



Coda. Questions of the Tongue

Christin M. Mulligan

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Katherine Ebury is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield.

Christin M. Mulligan is Adjunct Professor at Saint Joseph's University.