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Books talk to one another : Colum McCanns intertexts /

The intertext is the effective presence of a text in another one. This relation of co-presence between texts is the subject of the present essay. Colum McCann's work is studied here as a mosaic of references to and quotations from other texts. In its dialogue with other texts, it absorbs and tr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cardin, Bertrand (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Parodic transgression in the first short stories
  • 2. A Version of an Irish myth : 'Cathal's Lake'
  • 3. The intertext or the refl ection of dislocated Ireland : fishing the Sloe-black River and Everything in this country must
  • 4. The influences of fathers in Songdogs
  • 5. Prophets of Israel in Manhattan tunnels : a biblically informed reading of This side of brightness
  • 6. Dancer and readers : framed and framing books
  • 7. Zoli : a mimetic and dialogic novel in memory of the oppressed
  • 8. The recreation of voices in Let the great world spin--the paratext : authorities in crisis
  • 9. The recreation of voices in Let the great world spin--the text : 'as if anticipating the fall'
  • 10. Intertextuality and Intentionality in TransAtlantic
  • 11. Mirrors and collages in Thirteen ways of looking
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix : the fate of the Children of Lir.