Progressive Intertextual Practice in Modern And Contemporary Literature [Paperback]

This edited volume aims to reposition intertextuality in relation to recent trends in critical practice. Inspired by the work of Sara Ahmed in particular, our authors explore and reconfigure classic theories of authorship, influence and the text.

Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: New Metaphors for Progressive Intertextuality

1. Authorship, the mezzanine, and the intercession of meaning: a metaphysics of the creative writing process

Philip Miles

2.  De-disciplining criticism: refiguring reading as a mode of response-ability  

Ruth Daly

 

Part II: Progressive Intertextuality & Inclusivity

3. The Blind as Seen Through Blind Eyes: An Intertextual Approach to Visual Impairment in James Joyces Ulysses (1922)

Cleo Hanaway-Oakley

4. Grotesque Mat(t)er: Materiality and Matrilineality in Maggie OFarrells Hamnet (2020)

Orlagh Woods

 

Part III: Progressive Intertextuality & Interdisciplinarity 

5. Yardbird Suite: Jazz, Double Consciousness, and the Reverberations of the Harlem Renaissance in Stewart Parkers Pentecost (1987) 

Matthew Fogarty

6. Novel Art: The Contemporary Turn Towards Ekphrasis

Monika Gehlawat