Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique: Politics, Obscenity, Celebrity (Anthem Australian Humanities Research Series) - Softcover

McCann, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783084049 ISBN 13: 9781783084043

Verlag: Anthem Press, 2015

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Críticas:

‘McCann deftly situates Tsiolkas in both his vernacular local context as well as defining the contradictory elements of his growing global appeal. Tsiolkas’s extreme fictions are rendered legible as much through references to Pasolini’s legacy of queer aesthetics as to Adorno’s critiques of mass culture. At the same time McCann delivers an incisive and breathtakingly well-informed assessment of the current state of cultural politics in Australia.’ —Sneja Gunew, University of British Columbia

Reseña del editor:

Christos Tsiolkas is one of the most recognizable and internationally successful literary novelists working in Australia today. He is also one of the country's most politically engaged writers. These terms - recognition, commercial success, political engagement - suggest a relationship to forms of public discourse that belies the extremely confronting nature of much of Tsiolkas's fiction and his deliberate attempt to cultivate a literary persona oriented to notions of blasphemy, obscenity and what could broadly be called a pornographic sensibility. 'Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique' traces these contradictions against Tsiolkas's acute sense of the waning of working-class identity, and reads his work as a sustained examination of the ways in which literature might express an opposition to capitalist modernity.

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• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1783084049
• ISBN 13: 9781783084043
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 178