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1 online resource (218 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218). |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Politics and literature -- History -- 20th century.
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Politics and literature. |
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History. |
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Politics in literature.
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Politics in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Boyers, Robert. Dictator's dictation. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005 0231136749 (DLC) 2005048475 (OCoLC)60421111 |
| ISBN |
0231510071 (electronic book) |
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9780231510073 (electronic book) |
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