Critifiction

Critifiction
Author: Raymond Federman
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780791416792

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This book examines how, beginning in the 1960s up to the present, a new type of fiction was created in America, but also in Europe and Latin America, in response to the cultural, social, and political turmoil of the time. The author has coined the term "Surfiction" for this New Fiction. Written in an informal, provocative style, by an internationally known practitioner, these essays examine the cultural, social, and political conditions that forced serious writers to reflect (often within the work itself) on the act of writing fiction in the modern world. The entire book can be read as a manifesto for the present and future of the new fiction. This book is the first in the SUNY series in Postmodern Culture, edited by Joseph Natoli.

Critical Thinking and Persuasive Writing for Postgraduates

Critical Thinking and Persuasive Writing for Postgraduates
Author: Louise Katz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2018-02-17
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 135031465X

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This hands-on guide to advanced critical analysis and argumentation will help readers to communicate in way that is orderly, rigorously supported, persuasive and clear. It demonstrates how criticality can be paired with creativity to produce an insightful and engaging piece of research, and explores how narrative styles and rhetorical devices can be used to boost the persuasiveness of an argument. Chapters blend theory with practice and contain a wealth of activities designed to help students put new skills into practice or revitalise those they already have. This is an essential resource for postgraduates and advanced undergraduates looking to hone their skills in critical analysis and communicate their ideas with precision and clarity.

Postmodern Plagiarisms

Postmodern Plagiarisms
Author: Mirjam Horn
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2015-07-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110379104

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This monograph takes on the question of how literary plagiarism is defined, exposed, and sanctioned in Western culture and how appropriating language assigned to another author can be considered a radical subversive act in postmodern US-American literature. While various forms of art such as music, painting, or theater have come to institutionalize appropriation as a valid mode to ventilate what authorship, originality, and the anxiety of influence may mean, the literary sphere still has a hard time acknowledging the unmarked acquisition of words, ideas, and manuscripts. The author shows how postmodern plagiarism in particular serves as a literary strategy of appropriation at the interface between literary economics, law, and theoretical discourses of literature. She investigates the complex expectations surrounding the strong link between an individual author subject and its alienable text, a link that several postmodern writers powerfully question and violate. Identifying three distinct practices of postmodern plagiarism, the book examines their specific situatedness, precepts, and subversive potential as litmus tests for the literary market, and the ongoing dynamic notion of the concepts authorship, originality, and creativity.

Theory in the "Post" Era

Theory in the
Author: Christian Moraru
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2021-08-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501358979

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Theory in the "Post" Era brings together the work and perspectives of a group of Romanian theorists who discuss the morphings of contemporary theory in what the editors call the “post” era. Since the Cold War's end and especially in the third millennium, theorists have been exploring the aftermath - and sometimes just the “after” - of whole paradigms, the crisis or “passing” of anthropocentrism, the twilight of an entire ontological and cultural “condition,” as well as the corresponding rise of an antagonist model, of an “anti,” “meta,” or “neo” alternative, with examples ranging from “posthumanism” and “post-postmodernism” to “post-aesthetics,” “postanalog” interpretation or “digicriticism,” “post-presentism,” “post-memory,” “post-“ or “neo-critique,” and so forth. It is no coincidence, the contributors to this volume argue, that this “post” moment is also a time when theory is practiced as a world genre. If theory has always been a “worlded” enterprise, a quintessentially communal, cross-cultural and international project, this is truer at present than ever. Perhaps more than other humanist constituencies, today's theorists work and belong in a theory commons that is transnational if still uneven economically, politically, and otherwise. Theory in the "Post" Era reports the results of Romanian theory experiments that join efforts made in other places to foster a theory for the “post” age.

New Formalisms and Literary Theory

New Formalisms and Literary Theory
Author: V. Theile
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-04-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137010495

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Bringing together scholars who have critically followed New Formalism's journey through time, space, and learning environment, this collection of essays both solidifies and consolidates New Formalism as a burgeoning field of literary criticism and explicates its potential as a varied but viable methodology of contemporary critical theory.

Federman's Fictions

Federman's Fictions
Author: Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2012-01-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1438433832

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This collection of essays offers an authoritative examination and appraisal of the French-American novelist Raymond Federman's many contributions to humanities scholarship, including Holocaust studies, Beckett studies, translation studies, experimental fiction, postmodernism, and autobiography. Although known primarily as a novelist, Federman (1928–2009) is also the author of numerous books of poetry, essays, translations, and criticism. After emigrating to the United States in 1942 and receiving a Ph.D. in comparative literature at UCLA in 1957, he held professorships in the University at Buffalo's departments of French and English from 1964 to 1999. Together with Steve Katz and Ronald Sukenick, he was one of the original founders of the Fiction Collective, a nonprofit publishing house dedicated to avant garde, experimental prose. Far too many accounts treat Federman as merely a member of a small group of writers who pioneered "metafictional" or "postmodern" American literature. Federman's Fiction will introduce (or, for some, reintroduce) to the broader scholarly community a creative and daring thinker whose work is significant not just to considerations of the development of innovative fiction, but to a number of other distinct disciplines and emerging critical discourses.

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco
Author: Mike Gane
Publisher:
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2005
Genre:
ISBN:

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New Novel Review

New Novel Review
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Fiction Acquisition/fiction Management

Fiction Acquisition/fiction Management
Author: Georgine N. Olson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780789003911

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Provides librarians and library managers with information on how to start and maintain a fiction collection, offering guidelines, procedures, and interviews with professionals. Tells how to select materials, how to build a collection using suggestions from patrons, how to use book reviews as criteria for selection, and how to make use of WLN conspectus software to decide what selections are most marketable. Also lists sources, such as specific databases, for collecting specific genres. For librarians at public and academic libraries.

Serialization in Popular Culture

Serialization in Popular Culture
Author: Rob Allen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2014-05-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 113449212X

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From prime-time television shows and graphic novels to the development of computer game expansion packs, the recent explosion of popular serials has provoked renewed interest in the history and economics of serialization, as well as the impact of this cultural form on readers, viewers, and gamers. In this volume, contributors—literary scholars, media theorists, and specialists in comics, graphic novels, and digital culture—examine the economic, narratological, and social effects of serials from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century and offer some predictions of where the form will go from here.