Name: The Writer Written: The Artist and Creation in the new Literatures in English
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Author: Jean Pierre Durix
ISBN: 9780313258947

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The Writer Written: The Artist and Creation in the new Literatures in English

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Praeger

Author

Jean Pierre Durix

Year

1987

Language

English

Pages

177

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

0313258945

ISBN13

9780313258947

Synopsis "The Writer Written: The Artist and Creation in the new Literatures in English "

Few people are so widely read within Commonwealth literature or are so knowledgeable about so many different cultures as Jean-Pierre Durix. . . . The first part of the book deals with general, theoretical themes (e.g., the writer as teacher), while the second contains studies of single novels by such writers as Patrick White, C.K. Stead, and Salmon Rushdie; here Durix is at his best. ChoiceExploring the relationship between the writer and his craft, between the artist and society, between the creator and his conception of creation, this fascinating study takes up various key positions represented by major writers from Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, New Zealand, and the South Pacific, and examines the practice of literature, which is frequently concerned with a search for problematic roots and authenticity in its relation with didacticism, social concern, language and myth. The distinctively comparative approach brings together a series of close textual studies and examines four examples of metafiction from which emerge a number of specific features characteristic of literatures born out of Colonialism and its aftermath. Seen in this perspective, literary scholarship provides an irreplaceable point of view from which to assess the role of the imagination in multi-cultural societies.

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