Reading Literature Today
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Beschreibung:
The two complementary essays-one on literature and the other on reading-focus largely on texts in English and French, but also refer to other literatures. The authors propose a way of reading literature that not only synthesises some earlier tendencies and puts them in context, but also propounds a revolutionary understanding of the nature of literature and reading.
The writers taken up for discussion include William Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Proust, Charles Baudelaire, Franz Kafka, William Burroughs, Dylan Thomas, Attia Hosain, Albert Wendt, Zadie Smith, Philip Hensher, Mohsin Hamid and many others.
Written in the great and dying tradition of literary essays on literature and criticism, this is a bold and ground-breaking book by two exciting writers who believe in reading literature.
Preface
The Death of the Reader of Gaps and Silences
What Can Be Said and What Cannot Be Said
The Fissured Surface of Literature
What is Written and What is Not Written
II: `IN THE MIND OF THE BOURGEOIS READER`: AN ESSAY ON READING AS AN UNCOMFORTABLE EXPERIENCE (TRANSLATED PARTLY FROM FRENCH - Sebastien Doubinsky
Preface
Impermanence and Deception
Readers and Readers
Identification and Adherence
Reading the Unreadable
Last Words
III: A DISCUSSION OF REALISM, MAGIC REALISM, CONSUMERISM, PUBLISHING, READING AND WRITING - Sebastien Doubinsky and Tabish Khair
Index