ref. B9781501388439Paperback / softback. New. A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of the systems that bind them. How has a writer known principally for his contained domestic novels come to represent the most dynamic elements of world literature In Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature Chris Holmes expands our understanding of how world literature engages with the most pressing crises of the 20th and 21st centuries by examining Ishiguro’s fascination with characters who are profoundly constrained in their ability to understand global systems to which they are subject. Rather than following the established pattern of so-called global novels which crisscross the planet exhibiting a knowing cosmopolitanism Ishiguro’s fictional engagement with the world comes principally in the form of characters who are cut off from the global systems that abuse them. By examining the ways in which Ishiguro foregrounds the in-process thinking of those who fail to comprehend their place in the flow of politics culture and ideas Holmes positions Ishiguro as the great chronicler of everyday lives and as such prepares a mode of reading world literature that questions the assumptions for how we live and think with others when each of us is deeply limited. paperback

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Professor or Dr Josh TothBiblio.com

Truth and Metafiction: Plasticity and Renewal in American Narrative

ref. B9781501351730Paperback / softback. New. Metafiction has long been associated with the heyday of literary postmodernism—with a certain sense of irresponsibility political apathy or outright nihilism. Yet if as is now widely assumed postmodernism has finally run its course how might we account for the proliferation of metafictional devices in contemporary narrative media Does this persistence undermine the claim that postmodernism has passed or has the function of metafiction somehow changed To answer these questions Josh Toth considers a broad range of recent metafictional texts—bywriters such as George Saunders and Jennifer Egan and directors such as Sofia Coppola and Quentin Tarantino. At the same time he traverses a diffuse theoretical landscape: from the rise of various new materialisms in philosophy and the turn to affect in literary criticism to the seemingly endless efforts to name postmodernism’s ostensible successor. Ultimately Toth argues that much contemporary metafiction moves beyond postmodern skepticism to reassert the possibility of making true claims about real things. Capable of combating a “post-truth” crisis such forms assert or assume a kind of Hegelian plasticity; they actively and persistently confront the trauma of what is infinitely mutable or perpetually other. What is outside or before a given representation is confirmed and endured as that which exceeds the instance of its capture. The truth is thereby renewed; neither denied nor simply assumed it is approached as ethically as possible. Its plasticity is grasped because the grasp the form of its narrative apprehension lets slip. paperback

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Professor or Dr Zoran MilutinovicBiblio.com

When Criticism Goes to War: Njegos Andric and Their Detractors

ref. B9798765133781Paperback / softback. New. A bold intervention into the lingering debates on Serbian writers Njegos and Andric in the late Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav period which interrogates the political and moralizing misuse of literature. paperback

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Nobel Lectures, Including Presentation Speeches and Laureates' Biographies. Physiology or Medicine 1901-1921.

1967ref. 2132781Amsterdam, London and New York: Elsevier 1967. XII, 561, (3) Pages. Witch some illustrations. Gr. 8° (24,5 x 17 cm). Orig.-Leinenband mit blindgeprägtem Konterfei Alfred Nobels auf dem Vorderdeckel und goldgeprägtem Rückentitel sowie Orig.-Schutzumschlag. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].

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Nobel Lectures, Including Presentation Speeches and Laureates' Biographies. Physiology or Medicine 1922-1941.

1965ref. 2132780Amsterdam, London and New York: Elsevier 1965. XII, 546, (2) Pages. Witch 85 illustrations and 32 tables. Gr. 8° (24,5 x 17 cm). Orig.-Leinenband mit blindgeprägtem Konterfei Alfred Nobels auf dem Vorderdeckel und goldgeprägtem Rückentitel sowie Orig.-Schutzumschlag. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].