Shades of Gray: science fiction, history and the problem of postmodernism in the work of Alasdair GrayGalda & Wilch, 2004 - 316 pagini |
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... contemporary debates in literary and cultural theory , loosely grouped around the concept of " postmodernism " which has been so controversially discussed during the past few decades . Among the central issues analysed in this context ...
... contemporary debates in literary and cultural theory , loosely grouped around the concept of " postmodernism " which has been so controversially discussed during the past few decades . Among the central issues analysed in this context ...
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... contemporary authors will be another asset of this series . The focus of Leipzig Explorations is on literatures in English , albeit with a strong emphasis on comparative and interdisciplinary studies . We particularly encourage ...
... contemporary authors will be another asset of this series . The focus of Leipzig Explorations is on literatures in English , albeit with a strong emphasis on comparative and interdisciplinary studies . We particularly encourage ...
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... contemporary literary and cultural theory , with the intention of contributing to an appreciation of its significance beyond the confines of Scottish studies ' . Significantly , the study of Gray's writing will itself cast a shadow - or ...
... contemporary literary and cultural theory , with the intention of contributing to an appreciation of its significance beyond the confines of Scottish studies ' . Significantly , the study of Gray's writing will itself cast a shadow - or ...
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... contemporary British literature as well as of wider developments in contemporary theory . It would be wrong to say that Gray's work has not been noticed outside Scotland , however . Indeed , it has sometimes been used as one ( even ...
... contemporary British literature as well as of wider developments in contemporary theory . It would be wrong to say that Gray's work has not been noticed outside Scotland , however . Indeed , it has sometimes been used as one ( even ...
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... contemporary writers in some detail , he gets all of four lines . He is allocated one paragraph in Clive Bloom and Gary Day's Literature and Culture in Modern Britain , 1956-1999 ( 2000 ) , and in other surveys he is not mentioned at ...
... contemporary writers in some detail , he gets all of four lines . He is allocated one paragraph in Clive Bloom and Gary Day's Literature and Culture in Modern Britain , 1956-1999 ( 2000 ) , and in other surveys he is not mentioned at ...
Cuprins
Shades of Theory | 7 |
The Trouble with Postmodernism | 13 |
Confusions and Convictions | 14 |
Three Types | 18 |
Academia at War | 28 |
Towards a Compromise? | 34 |
Postmodern Possibilities | 41 |
Metafiction Intertextuality InterArt Discourse | 46 |
Shades of Histories | 157 |
Historiographic Metafiction | 167 |
Lanark and the Complexities of His Story | 171 |
Victorianism Revisited Multiple Histories in Poor Things | 182 |
Gender Class and Empire | 188 |
Remembering Glasgows Poor Things | 202 |
Historicising the Future?A History Maker | 209 |
Surviving the End of History | 211 |
Shades of Science Fiction and Apocalypse | 77 |
Science Fiction and Postmodernism | 80 |
The Problem of Genre Definition | 84 |
Grays SF as Social Fable | 92 |
Social Criticism in Lanark | 94 |
The Quality of Fable in Grays Other SF Works | 109 |
Ambiguous Anti Utopias | 115 |
Utopia vs Dystopia in Grays SF | 116 |
AntiUtopia Science and Ideology | 124 |
Grays SF as Epic and the Condition of Parody | 127 |
Echoes and Parodies of the ScienceFiction Tradition in Grays Work | 135 |
Grays Ambiguous SF | 153 |
Making History Last | 217 |
Grays Histories | 228 |
Postmodern Problems | 237 |
Humanism Modernism and Realism | 244 |
Political Involvement | 250 |
Nationalism | 254 |
Shades of Grays Postmodernism | 262 |
Colourful Shades of Gray | 265 |
Epilogue by Alasdair Gray Mainly | 275 |
Appendix | 283 |
Bibliography | 291 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
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