Resisting Texts Exploring Positions In A Complex Relationship - Peter Lang Group AG

Resisting Texts Offers Twelve Studies That Analyse The Complex Dynamics Of Textual Resistance, Exploring Fiction's Fundamental Potential To Resist Against Realities - And The Way Reality May Resist Against Fictions. Grouped Into Four Sections, The Articles (1) Focus On How Fictional Texts Resist The Dynamics Of History By Consciously Rewriting It; (2) Explore How Texts Resist The Readers' Desire To Witness An Authentic Act Of Origin And Instead Perform The Past's Resistance Against Recovery; (3) Describe Cultural Institutions And Their Rhetoric Of Resistance Against Mainstream Views That Nevertheless Has Potential For Productive Resistance Go Unused; And (4) Offer New Approaches To Literary Texts That Are Usually Read As Resisting A Specific Ideology But Can Be Shown To Resist In A More Complex Way. The 'resisting Texts' In These Studies Include Works By Thomas Bernhard, Antnio Botto, Daniil Charms, Allen Ginsberg, Toni Morrison, Octavio Paz, W.g.