The Return of the Storyteller in Contemporary Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Areti Dragas works as a visiting lecturer and associate tutor at Durham University and the University of Sunderland, UK. Klappentext A study that examines and accounts for the turn in international fiction in English towards images of the storyteller. Vorwort This study examines and accounts for the turn in recent international fiction in English towards images of the storyteller. Zusammenfassung A study that examines and accounts for the turn in international fiction in English towards images of the storyteller. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements \ Introduction \1. The Story of the Storyteller \ 2. Reading and Writing the Storyteller \ 3. The Birth of the Storyteller: Jim Crace's The Gift of Stones \ 4. Storyteller as Outcast: Mario Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller \ 5. The Oral Storyteller: Salman Rushdie's Midnight’s Children , The Satanic Verses and Haroun and the Sea of Stories \ 6. Postmodern Story/reteller: John Barth's The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor \ 7. Storyteller-ess: A. S. Byatt's "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye"\ 8. Storyteller as Author: J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Slow Man \ Bibliography \ Index

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• Authors: Areti Dragas, Areti (University of Durham Dragas, Dr Areti (University of Durham Dragas
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2014
• EAN: 9780826439901
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-3990-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Continuum Literary Studies; Continuum Literary Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form