Progressive Intertextual Practice in Modern And Contemporary Literature

This edited volume aims to reposition intertextuality in relation to recent trends in critical practice. Inspired by the work of Sara Ahmed in particular, our authors explore and reconfigure classic theories of authorship, influence and the text.

Autorentext

Katherine Ebury is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield.

Christin M. Mulligan is Adjunct Professor at Saint Joseph's University.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: New Metaphors for Progressive Intertextuality

1. Authorship, the 'mezzanine', and the intercession of meaning: a metaphysics of the creative writing process

Philip Miles

2. De-disciplining criticism: refiguring reading as a mode of response-ability

Ruth Daly

Part II: Progressive Intertextuality & Inclusivity

3. The Blind as Seen Through Blind Eyes: An Intertextual Approach to Visual Impairment in James Joyce's Ulysses (1922)

Cleo Hanaway-Oakley

4. Grotesque Mat(t)er: Materiality and Matrilineality in Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (2020)

Orlagh Woods

Part III: Progressive Intertextuality & Interdisciplinarity ****

5. "Yardbird Suite": Jazz, Double Consciousness, and the Reverberations of the Harlem Renaissance in Stewart Parker's Pentecost (1987)

Matthew Fogarty

6. Novel Art: The Contemporary Turn Towards Ekphrasis

Monika Gehlawat

Coda. Questions of the Tongue

Christin M. Mulligan

Index