christopher rollason (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. xii + 304.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Contents: Preface. 1. Postmodernism's linguistic turn/Christine Jones. 2. Teaching a postmodern text/T. Ravichandran. 3. The specter of relativism: a critical review of Norman Holland's models of reader-response/Nouri Gana.4. Irony in relevance theory: recurrent features, critical stances and possible research trends/Maria Angeles Ruiz Moneva. 5. Towards an inclusive, multi-functional, sociolinguistic theory of stylistics of fiction/Prakash Chandra Pradhan. 6. Language of drama: a consideration/N.V.Raveendran. 7. The symbolism of literature/Gangadhar Gadgil. 8. Language, identity and African literary theory/Anthonia C. Kalu. 9. The trajectory of African critical discourse in English: an overview/Mala Pandurang. 10. India, Indian, Indianness: problematising the Indian English novelist's identity/Subhendu Mund. 11. Psychoanalysis and Indian writing in English: promises and possibilities/Rajeshwar Mittapalli. 12. Introductory notes on the application of art criticism to legal research/Damaso Javier Vicente Blanco. 13. Toward an exemplary relationship between the judge and the literary critic/Nouri Gana. 14. Feminist deconstruction and reconstruction of male myths and fairy tales via intertextuality/N. Geetha. 15. The passageways of Paris: Walter Benjamin's "Arcades project" and contemporary cultural debate in the west/Christopher Rollason. 16. Invisible natures: on Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities/Virgilio Augusto Fernandes Almedia. " This anthology assembles sixteen essays on different aspects of modern criticism, by some of the best scholars from six countries and four 304 pp.

Contents 1 Introduction Sheobhushan Shukla Christopher Rollason and Anu Shukla 2 To tell a story is to affirm life Death and Storytelling in Vikram Chandras Red Earth and Pouring Rain Silvia Albertazzi 3 Leaving the Past Behind Letting the Future Alone Vikram Chandras Uses of History in Red Earth and Pouring Rain Andrew Teverson 4 The Tale teller and the Text Storytelling in Vikram Chandras Red Earth and Pouring Rain and Love and Longing in Bombay Christopher Rollason 5 On the Spanish Translation of Vikram Chandras Love and Longing in Bombay Problems and Strategies of Translating a Transcultural Text Christopher Rollason 6 A Story from Vikram Chandras Love and Longing in Bombay Kama Detecting in Bombay Cielo Festino 7 Supermodernity Meganarratives A Comparative Study of Vikram Chandras Sacred Games Gregory David Roberts Shantaram and Suketu Mehtas Maximum City Geetha Ganapathy Dore 8 Only Life Itself Noir Fiction and Beyond in Vikram Chandras Sacred Games Dora Sales Salvador 9 Farewell Father Edipus Freedom and Uncertainty in Vikram Chandras Sacred Games Adalinda Gasparini 10 The Other as the Subject in Vikram Chandras Sacred Games Sheobhushan Shukla 11 Uses and Abuses of Indian English in Sacred Games Anu Shukla 12 A Conversation with Vikram Chandra Antonia Navarro Tejero Bibliography Index Vikram Chandra born in Delhi in 1961 has risen to prominence as one of the most acclaimed of the current generation of practitioners of Indian Writing in English He is the author of the novels Red Earth and Pouring Rain 1995 and Sacred Games 2006 and the story collection Love and Longing in Bombay 1997 This volume reflects the international range of scholarship on Chandra through ten critical essays and an interview Taken together the contributions point up plurality as a vital feature of a body of fiction that reflects both the innate heterogeneity of Indian culture and the complexities of postcoloniality and globalisation while refusing all monolithic belief systems and constantly interweaving a multiplicity of narrative voices jacket 264 pp.