Contributions consacrées aux enjeux esthétiques et politiques du processus de réécriture dans la littérature anglophone contemporaine, majoritairement, mais aussi au cinéma et dans la photographie. ©Electre 2025
The contemporary period favours - or so it says - originality and the individual. A number of English-speaking novelists, artists or film-makers have nevertheless chosen to deal repeatedly with the question of « rewriting ». They tackle it in ways that are not necessarily identical or that may even seem poles apart : neo-Victorian « nostalgic post-modernism » is very different from the re-reading/rewriting of classics performed by postcolonial authors. But contemporary cases shed an interesting light on the practice of rewriting in general : oscillating between aesthetic and political/ideological preoccupations, rewriting appears as a protean figure of renewal, in which a large part of contemporary literary and artistic analysis and theory seem to be grounded. It has been argued that it corresponds to the ethos of our time - summarizing our way of passing stories and history to the next generation. It seems only fair therefore to try to assess its particular status in modernity and post-modernity and what it tells us about this period's desire to control stories and history.
This collection of essays from the conference « The Status of Rewriting in 20th-21st century Art, Film and Literature in English : Aesthetic Choice or Political Act ? » held at the University of Limoges (22-23 November, 2012) addresses the question of rewriting in-between politics and aesthetics in the English-speaking world in order to see what sort of influence an apparently very autotelic game has on reality. Contributors have tried to take a number of questions raised by 20th and 21st Century rewritings into consideration in order to assess the variety, evolution, topicality of this practice - ranging from the aesthetic conversation carried out with tradition to more political or ideological aspects from which the aesthetic dimension can rarely be separated.
Paru le : 16/10/2015
Thématique : Essais et théories - Dictionnaire
Auteur(s) : Non précisé.
Éditeur(s) :
M. Houdiard
Collection(s) : Non précisé.
Contributeur(s) : Editeur scientifique (ou intellectuel) : Estelle Epinoux - Editeur scientifique (ou intellectuel) : Nathalie Martinière - Préfacier : Nathalie Martinière
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-2-35692-122-2
EAN13 : 9782356921222
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 248
Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 15.0 cm
Épaisseur: 1.2 cm
Poids: 200 g
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