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E. M. Forsters Legacies in British Fiction, Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture 18
ISBN/EAN: 9783034325998
Umbreit-Nr.: 1861397
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 352 S.
Format in cm: 2 x 22.5 x 15
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 06.04.2017
Auflage: 1/2017
- Zusatztext
- Since Forsters death in 1970, many British novelists and film directors have acknowledged and even claimed the influence of the novelist of the English soul (in Woolfs terms) and of a renewed faith in both human relationships and a quintessentially British liberal-humanism. After the ethical turn at the end of the twentieth century, British literature today seems to go back even more drastically to the figure of the individual human being, and to turn the narrative space into some laboratory of a new form of empowerment of the others political autonomy. It is in this context that the references to Forster are more and more frequent, both in British fiction and in academia. This book does not only aim at spotting and theorising this return to Forster today. Rather we endeavour to trace its genealogy and shed light on the successive modes of the legacy, from Forsters first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) onwards, to the novelisation of Forster himself by Damon Galgut. How can the principle of connection, of correspondences and echoes, which informed Forsters private life and approach to writing so much, equally characterise the aesthetic and political influence of his uvre?
- Kurztext
- This book questions the artistic, aesthetic, political and ethical legacy of E. M. Forster's novels. It covers Forster's literary, cinematic and musical legacies across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and deal with many authors, such as Melville, Isherwood, Hollinghurst and Kureishi.
- Autorenportrait
- Elsa Cavalié is a Senior Lecturer at Avignon University (France). Her research focuses on Contemporary British fiction and Cultural Studies with particular emphasis on the notions of Englishness and Britishness. Laurent Mellet is Professor of British literature and film at the Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès (France). He specialises in Modernist and contemporary British fiction, and in film and adaptation theory.