Criticism, Crisis, and Contemporary Narrative - Textual Horizons in an Age of Global Risk

Summary

This landmark collection of essays demonstrates the capacity of literary and cultural criticism, working in dialogue with contemporary narrative texts, to provide penetrating insights into a public sphere defined by a succession of overlapping global crises, ranging from finance and economics to the environment, geopolitics, terrorism, and public health.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Crosthwaite
• Assisted by: Paul Crosthwaite (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.06.2014
• EAN: 9781138816206
• ISBN: 978-1-138-81620-6
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Humanities, Literary studies: general, Literary theory