Imagination and the Contemporary Novel

Imagination and the Contemporary Novel

Author: John J. Su

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-05-26

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1139497545

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Imagination and the Contemporary Novel examines the global preoccupation with the imagination among literary authors with ties to former colonies of the British Empire since the 1960s. John Su draws on a wide range of authors including Peter Ackroyd, Monica Ali, Julian Barnes, André Brink, J. M. Coetzee, John Fowles, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith. This study rehabilitates the category of imagination in order to understand a broad range of contemporary Anglophone literature. The responses of such literature to shifts in global capitalism have often been misunderstood by the dominant categories of literary studies, the postmodern and the postcolonial. As both an insightful critique into the themes that drive a range of today's best novelists and a bold restatement of what the imagination is and what it means for contemporary culture, this book breaks new ground in the study of twenty-first-century literature.


The Interethnic Imagination

The Interethnic Imagination

Author: Caroline Rody

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0195377362

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Rody proposes a new paradigm for understanding the changing terrain of contemporary fiction. She claims that what we have long read as ethnic literature is in the process of becoming 'interethnic'. Examining an extensive range of Asian American fictions, she offers readings of three especially compelling examples.


C. Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination

C. Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination

Author: John Scott

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2013-11-29

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1782540032

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With renowned international contributors and expert contributions from a range of specialisms, this book will appeal to academics, students and researchers of sociology.


Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory

Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory

Author: Keith Moser

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-07-27

Total Pages: 810

ISBN-13: 9004436359

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This transdisciplinary project represents the most comprehensive study of imagination to date. The eclectic group of international scholars who comprise Imagination and Art propose bold and innovative theoretical frameworks for (re-) conceptualizing imagination in all of its divergent forms.


The Republic of Imagination

The Republic of Imagination

Author: Azar Nafisi

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-10-21

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0698170334

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A New York Times bestseller The author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with the next chapter of her life in books—a passionate and deeply moving hymn to America Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her multimillion-copy bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics of English and American literature to her eager students in Iran. In this electrifying follow-up, she argues that fiction is just as threatened—and just as invaluable—in America today. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination. Nafisi invites committed readers everywhere to join her as citizens of what she calls the Republic of Imagination, a country with no borders and few restrictions, where the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.


Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination

Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination

Author: Marsha Meskimmon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-09-13

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1136937056

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Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination explores the role of art in conceiving and reconfiguring the political, ethical and social landscape of our time. Understanding art as a vital form of articulation, Meskimmon argues that artworks do more than simply reflect and represent the processes of transnational and transcultural exchange typical of the global economy. Rather, art can change the way we imagine, understand and engage with the world and with others very different than ourselves. In this sense, art participates in a critical dialogue between cosmopolitan imagination, embodied ethics and locational identity. The development of a cosmopolitan imagination is crucial to engendering a global sense of ethical and political responsibility. By materialising concepts and meanings beyond the limits of a narrow individualism, art plays an important role in this development, enabling us to encounter difference, imagine change and make possible the new. This book asks what it means to inhabit a globalized world – how we might literally and figuratively make ourselves cosmopolitans, ‘at home’ everywhere. Contemporary art provides a space for this enquiry. Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination is structured and written through four ‘architectonic figurations’ – foundation, threshold, passage and landing – which simultaneously reference the built environment and the transformative structure of knowledge-systems. It offers a challenging new direction in the current literature on cosmopolitanism, globalisation and art.


Dreaming in Books

Dreaming in Books

Author: Andrew Piper

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-08

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0226669726

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Examining novels, critical editions, gift books, translations, and illustrated books, as well as the communities who made them, Dreaming in Books tells a wide-ranging story of the book's identity at the turn of the nineteenth century. In so doing, it shows how many of the most pressing modern communicative concerns are not unique to the digital age but emerged with a particular sense of urgency during the bookish upheavals of the romantic era. In revisiting the book's rise through the prism of romantic literature, Piper aims to revise our assumptions about romanticism, the medium of the printed book, and, ultimately, the future of the book in our so-called digital age."--Pub. desc.


Postmodern Heretics

Postmodern Heretics

Author: Eleanor Heartney

Publisher:

Published: 2018-02-15

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9780998956855

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This redesigned, re-edited, illustrated new edition of the classic study "Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art" challenges conventional wisdom about the relationship of contemporary art and religion. It explores the Catholic roots of controversial artists and the impact of Catholicism on the 1990s Culture Wars.


Imagination & Spirit

Imagination & Spirit

Author: J. Brent Bill

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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A collection of essays, fiction, devotional works, and other writings by Quaker authors from the second half of the 20th century.